#orient

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bisexual #bisexuality #choice #chosen #fact

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#i #intellectually #oriented #very

Modern Orientalism embodies a systematic discipline of accumulation. Far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature, it made Orientalism tend fatally towards the systematic accumulation of human beings and territories. To reconstruct a dead or lost Oriental language meant ultimately to reconstruct a dead or neglected Orient; it also meant that reconstructive precision, science, even imagination could prepare the way for what armies, administrators, and bureaucracies would later do on the ground. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#imagination

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#among #art #artists #best #contrary

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#eighties #guitar #guitar players #nineties #oriented

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. ↗

— Olivia De Havilland

#city #else #equate #hollywood #long

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. ↗

— Robert Brady

#ago #based #combat #controversial #discrimination

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. ↗

— James J. Hill

#commercial #controls #discover #get #global

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security. ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#denied #done #i #i do #just

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation. ↗

— Peter Krause

#because #country #death #get #live