#stern

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#democracy #i #i think #invention #learning

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#bosnian #brothers #brought #came #christian

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child. ↗

— Aly Khan

#backward #been #big #child #fact

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#because #better #considered #different #entertainment

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#fact #fantastic #find #i #matter

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#expression #feeling #play #twilight #ultimate

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good. ↗

— Milos Forman

#being #especially #films #first #france

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#politics #tradition #values #western-civilization #food

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#feeling #head #i #instance #like

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#because #father #form #high #i