I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.
When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
The almost Oriental politeness of the West Coast is one of its distinctive regional features, in marked contrast to the contentiousness of the East Coast. . . . So few human contacts in Los Angeles go unmediated by glass (either a TV screen or an automobile windshield), that the direct confrontation renders the participants docile, stunned, sweet.
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.
I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U. S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
After I left LA. . . it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.