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The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
Keith Carradine

Familiar, Genre

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
Keith Carradine

American, Genre, Uniquely

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett

Work, Single, Put

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
Majel Barrett

Travel, Same, Put

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
Ray Stevenson

Real, Violence, Open

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Victor Davis Hanson

Time, War, Stupid

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
Steve Cropper

Great, Country, Gospel

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
Buchi Emecheta

Hate, Bad, Woman

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Neil Abercrombie

Land, Ownership, Concepts

I also like Western classical music and jazz.
Nusrat F. A. Khan

Music, Jazz, Classical

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.
Vincent Frank

Challenge, Left, Nobody

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush

Country, Used, Everyday

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
Silvia Cartwright

Life, Values, Countries

I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.
Tim Rice

Love, Great, Stupid

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
George Andrew Olah

Life, Summer, Becoming

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
Sandy Duncan

Work, War, Together

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
Arthur Peacocke

Life, Integrity, Honesty

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.
Daniel Pipes

Fighting, While, Both

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
Daniel Pipes

Daily, Become, Fact

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
Daniel Pipes

Nothing, Involved, Conflict

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.
Dick Ebersol

Good, Character, Bad

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.
Michael Scott

Difficult, Anybody, Muslim

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Life, War, Enemy

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
William Kunstler

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
Virchand Gandhi

Life, Religion, Place

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

Next, Process, Logical

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Gary Becker

Family, Past, Changes

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild

Country, Two, Why

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
Thomas Day

Gentleman, Name, Whose

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
Jeremiah Wright

Great, Black, America

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