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Nat King Cole Singer, Pianist
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"If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
West

"You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'"

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state."

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
West

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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"Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?"

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
West

"I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side."

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