Quotes About Cultural exchange

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

I'd never go up to somebody and start preaching, but if somebody asks I'm willing to talk about it. Often, after people have seen me praying, they'll ask and it's a chance to show how normal prayer time is and why we do it, to teach people about the religion. Not to try to change them, but to explain.

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.

New York is essentially a bazaar, not a Presbyterian church.

There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

Back in Israel, I would spend much effort and plenty of money on presents when I went abroad, even if it was only for two days.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

Though I come from Delhi, many other artistes like me attained success in Maharashtra.

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings in English, in a different language. But I could.

When you have people from different parts of the world coming together, it just makes it so much richer.

Because of work, I travel a lot, and because of that, I can experience different cultures and see and talk to a lot of different people, so I get inspired by that a lot.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

Tamil for me is my cousin Esha. I even told her that I was preparing to play a Tamilian and asked her if she could teach me the language.

I wanted to show, like, neighborhoods in Canada and Europe and stuff like that are integrated with all of us, you know what I mean? People live together harmoniously and they teach each other culture and they teach each other things that school can't teach you, only real life can teach.

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

My son has no interest in music other than as a listener. He teaches English to Japanese students.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.