John Ford
Film Director
"When in doubt, make a western."
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David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day."
Octavio Paz
Poet, Essayist
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity."
Huston Smith
Philosopher
"The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules."
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"The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy."
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"Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves."
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"Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
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"I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other."
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"You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway."
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"Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die."
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"I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs."
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"All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing."
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"Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things."
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"As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life."
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"Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually."
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"Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it."
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