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Those Oriental people work like dogs.
Rob Ford / Canadian Politician
Work People Like
Dogs
Oriental
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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Tom T. Hall / Singer
Faulkner
Oriental
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I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.
Johnny Mathis / Singer
Love Music Influence
Oriental
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The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.
Li Keqiang / Premier Of The People's Republic Of China
Western
Oriental
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I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky / Russian Politician
Danger
Islam
Mean
General
Faiths
Oriental
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I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Community
African
Jews
North
Oriental
Parts
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm De Chazal / Writer
Flower
Harem
Sun
Thighs
Imaginable
Jumble
Oriental
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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill / Executive
Reviews
Trade
Wealth
Commercial
Controls
Discover
Global
Hold
Oriental
Review
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I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian.
Mary H.k. Choi /
Asian
British
Indian
Talking
Love People Who
British People
Love People Talking
Indian People
Oriental
Unless
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China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Asia
China
Desire
Imperialism
Isolationism
Western
Anyone
Anyone Else
Own
Else
No Desire
Oriental
Replace
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
Yotam Ottolenghi / Chef
Dishes
Sour
Tacky
Love Sweet Me
Call
Oriental
Union
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I like 'I Can't Stand the Rain.' I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an 'oriental taste,' it has an essence of Asia.
Lee Tae-Min /
Asia
Essence
Rain
Oriental
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
Candace Bushnell / Novelist
Gold
Marble
Mirrors
Crystal
Liked
Leaf
Oriental
Plaza
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Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.
Ameen Rihani / Writer
Bolshevism
Descent
Mood
Temperament
Oriental
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
Christopher Dawson / Historian
Christian
Doctrine
Essentials
Giving
Human History
Religions
Essential
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'israeli / Writer
Captivity
Residence
Chief
Disasters
Exempt
Fatal
Oriental
Princes
Remained
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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
David Hockney / Photographer
Art
Chinese
Deals
Paint
People
Shadow
Sunny
Art People Sometimes
Meant
Course
Noticed
Oriental
Pictures
See
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Anime
Hats
Roof
Stories
Rise
Hat
Japanese
Oriental
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
Olivia De Havilland / Film Actress
Hollywood
Time Long City
Anything Else
Equate
Time City Long
Oriental
Perish
Survive
The One Thing
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My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.
Mark Shand /
Antiques
Collecting
Driving
Filled
Objects
Bit
Spend
Oriental
Travels
Weekends
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In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.
Mark Burnett / Television Producer
Chairs
Desert
Lauren
Leather
Like You
Ad
Africa
Camp
Old
Jack
Meets
Oriental
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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Did I develop any ruses of my own in order to buy what I wanted at a reasonable price? In time, of course, anyone who has ever done real business in an oriental bazaar will learn the tricks and feints of buying and bargaining there.
James Ivory / Film Director
Bargaining
Buying
Reasonable
Tricks
Time Business Real
Oriental
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Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student population, I began to immerse myself in the ways social, legal and political forces contribute to human rights and freedoms.
David Lammy / British Politician
Legal
Diverse
Human Rights
International
International Law
London
Population
Wonderful Experience
African
Began
Contribute
Student
Forces
Freedoms
Immerse
Incredibly
Oriental
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Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton /
Bittersweet
Cases
Destruction
Obvious
Painful
Proof
Acre
Time Man Will
Apart
Mountains
Escaped
Gardens
Oriental
Vine
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The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
George A. Moore / Novelist
East
Ethics
Every Man
Folly
Personal Life
Unknown
Life Good Society
Brings
Instincts
Holds
Invade
Manner
Oriental
Stands
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I've ruined a lot of hotel towels. I did a shoot in San Francisco and stayed at the Mandarin Oriental. I must have ruined thousands of dollars worth of towels. I dye my hair once a week. The dye is not temporary. It stains everything. It stains tiles, that's how powerful it is.
Alvin Leung /
Hotel
Ruined
San Francisco
Temporary
Towels
Dye
Francisco
Once A Week
Oriental
San
Stayed
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The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Connected
Illusion
Reality
Senses
Soul
Thinking
Achieves
Human Being
Oriental
Perceived
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When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.
Roger Rees /
Bangkok
Halfway
Hearing
Hotel
Location
Reception
Yelling
Announced
Award
Dench
Judi Dench
Oriental
Tony
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Boundless
Dazzling
Overlooking
Realization
Splendor
Sublime
World
Picture
Behold
Carried
Dreamed
Forest
Oriental
Slope
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