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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
Edward Said / Professor
Orientalism
Racist
Totally
Since
Almost
European
Homer
Imperialist
Orient
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley / Novelist
Revenge
Rivers
Tea
Too Much
Trouble
Yellow
Diverted
Orient
Slow
River
Throats
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There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
Alan Sugar / Business Person
England
Following
Football
Luck
Orient
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There are some signs that can indicate she might be interested. Woman might do subconscious things like play with their hair or orient their body towards your direction.
Charli Xcx / Singer-Songwriter
Body
Might
Subconscious
Interested
Direction
Towards
Indicate
Orient
Signs
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I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
Frank Abagnale / Consultant
Famous
Europe
Portions
South America
America More Europe
Africa
Beaches
Capital
Orient
Seas
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I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
Ravi Zacharias / Author
Answers
Cultural Issues
East
Middle
Middle East
West
Questions
Context
Cultural
Far East
Present
Orient
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The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it 'Tan Fascist Culture.' Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they're not.
James Turrell / Artist
Movie Star
Sunglasses
Tan
Fascist
Orient
Wears
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Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Ideology
Viewpoints
Western
Distinct
Orient
Souls
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I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.
Adrian Mckinty / Novelist
Peter
David
Cover
Fanatic
First One
Orient
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No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
Jane Elliot /
East
Greece
Middle
Middle East
Prayer
Religious
Rome
Founded
Major
Orient
Planet
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I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
Lisa Cholodenko /
New York
Sister
Having Children
Needed
Nutty
Towards
Orient
York
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Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer / Tv Reporter
Beautiful
Couple
Doubt
No Doubt
At Least One
Beautiful Woman
Board
Duke
Express
Grand
Orient
Spies
Troubled
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
Billy Collins / Poet
Historical
Reader
Time Myself Feel
Time Myself Where
Beginning
Chronological
Either
Orient
Poem
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On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
China
Experts
Foreign Policy
Mumbai
Policy
President
Singapore
Wisest
Wisest Man
Man World Way
Named
Foreign
Lee
Meet
Orient
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Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.
Reid Hoffman / Entrepreneur
Ability
Decision Making
Dies
Faster
Fighter
Fighter Pilot
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Succeed
Terminology
Person
Live
Act
Effectively
Loop
Observe
Orient
Pilot
Valley
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The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
Adrian Mckinty / Novelist
Delighted
Hooked
Novel
Peter
David
Cover
Read
Express
Immediately
Orient
Proper
Recall
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
John Green / Author
Fall
Falling In Love
First Time
Love Is
Writing
Life Love Time
Falling
Figure
Orient
Value
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Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Characteristics
Civilization
Japan
Remains
Western
Western Civilization
Acquainted
Hawk
Orient
Tower
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In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
Paul Rand / Graphic Designer
Allergic
Bread
Drink
Painting
Sugar
West
Butter
Orient
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