#stern

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #big problem #certain #civilization

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like. ↗

— America Ferrera

#culture #image #impossible #issues #like

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#experts #good #happen #i #ideal

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#detective stories #fiction #politicians #read #science

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. ↗

— Brian Cox

#been #class #come #community #eastern

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#alternatives #america #assistance #clean #clean energy

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#books #called #college #courses #first