#ura

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King. ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#between #cultural #cultural war #get #just

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#cities #created #enormous #environmental #general

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#cannot #character #courage #destroying #independence

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#critic #deadly #encouragement #give #heavy

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#everyone #everywhere #exists #feels #him

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#country #culturally #family #feels #friends

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#difficult #doing #explore #exploring #extension

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person. ↗

— Ed Helms

#boisterous #come #contemplative #given #guarded

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#am #decay #dig #dreams #i