#stern

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. ↗

— Amos Oz

#cultured #more #parents #scale #something

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beginning #bring #east #eastern #i

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#any #asian #baby #because #cinema

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#aggressive #chicago #cold #every #few

Western man is schizophrenic. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#schizophrenic #western #western man