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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
Omar Bongo

Political, Democracy, Models

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Omar Bongo

Justice, Principle, Concept

My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
Eli Wallach

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
Ulrich Beck

Today, Themselves, Within

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Both, Interested

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
Satyajit Ray

Time, Indian, Mix

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Movies, Here, Wanted

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
Edward James Olmos

Power, Become, Color

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
Geraldine Brooks

Cool, Today, Waiting

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell

Mother, Wife, Down

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Dinesh D'Souza

Foundation, Root

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

Great, Two, Small

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
Ornette Coleman

Music, Same, Realize

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
Rowan D. Williams

Age, Problems, Anxiety

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough

Both, Musical, Opposition

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
Jessica Alba

Talk, Culture, Accepted

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
Park Chan-wook

Love, Good, Movie

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges

Keep, Desire, Movement

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Chaim Potok

Religion, Experience, Human

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.
Azar Nafisi

Women, Struggle, Tried

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.
Bill O'Reilly

Islam, Same, Times

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton

Society, Reality, Mean

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Real, Fact, Often

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.
John C. McGinley

Beautiful, Through, Big

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Lafcadio Hearn

Same, Writer, Romance

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn

Great, Best, Society

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn

Poetry, True, Short

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
Arthur Henderson

Values, Economic, Survive

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Bad, Advice, Leaders

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Cannot, Muslim, Existence

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