Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Asia has always been a really exciting part of the world for me, personally. And it actually was the first part of the world that bought my brand, strangely enough.
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.
Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.
When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.
We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.
I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.
I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Beyond the U.S. and E.U., Britain should deepen ties with the Commonwealth and the rising powers of Asia and Latin America - calibrated to our national interest in promoting the global goods of free trade, democracy, and basic human rights.
Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
There is still a big gap between South America and Europe and Asia, and if we had more players playing in Europe, the gap would be smaller.
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.
Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'
The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.
We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.
I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.
We toured the world, all over Europe and to the Far East and Australia.
The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.
In South Asia, there is a lack of understanding of the term 'empowerment' because majority of the people think that the definition of women empowerment is to wear fewer clothes, to renounce her culture and traditions, and that it's synonymous with immorality.
The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.
Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.
Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
My central objective is, turn Afghanistan's location into a greater asset. Central Asia is becoming Afghanistan's major trading partner. The vision of connectivity is really important.
On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China's actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.
An American government that really wanted to stick it to the Chinese Communist Party would be reinforcing U.S. alliances in Asia, instead of threatening to withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan until they pay extortionate rates for U.S. bases.
I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.
There are people who are saying that they voted twice for Mr. Obama and they are now feeling a great sense of regret, not only over Guantanamo, etc., but now perhaps the entry into a new war in West Asia.
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.
Street stalls, be they in Korea, Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, in a covered market or simply on a street corner with a few brightly coloured plastic stools and tables, are my favourite places in the world to eat.
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.
In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture.
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