When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

You can't just fast-forward to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. You have to go out there and earn it.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.

India as a film-making nation has gained recognition, at last, at most important Western and Far Eastern forums.

Sydney CBD is the eastern city, Parramatta is the central city and Badgerys will be the third city in greater Sydney.

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

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

In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

I believe that every single game in the Playoffs, round 1 to Eastern Conference Finals, every single game is a different game.

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

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits.

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.

Brits are very, very expressive, whereas the Soviet and Eastern European way is much more stern, stone-faced. Vladimir Putin-esque in some way.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

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