I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

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

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

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

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

I never argued against the position of the Chief Rabbinate on holy sites, including the Western Wall.

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

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

It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

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

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

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

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

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