#west

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

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Mike Pence

#capitol #capitol hill #declaration #democrats #economic

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

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to. ↗

— Luke Perry

#buy #car #drive #even #expensive

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio. ↗

— Luke Perry

#grew #high #high school #i #like

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bikini #care #clothes #deem #i

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

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#coming #depend #genetically #information #many

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#alter #any #could #did #germanic