#cult

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#lose #loss #love #much #person

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #apology #australia #australian #australians

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. ↗

— Walter Salles

#come #continent #country #culture #i

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy. ↗

— Robert Evans

#difficult #more #nothing #than

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#care #challenges #difficulties #every #film

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

#cultures #holds #leaders #listened #must

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture. ↗

— Robert Plant

#english #had #kids #many #white