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"The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon."
"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
"There are some bright spots, to be sure, but the internet is still in a Wild West phase, as was the case during the early age of the printing press as well."
"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."
"I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on."
"I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West."
"If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique."
"No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about."
"The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised."
"Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic."
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"That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet."
"No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions."
"The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West."
"Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman."
"If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself."
"Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West."
"The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick."
"The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence."
"Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West."
