Quotes About Cultural exchange

Civilization is communication," the doctor said. "That which is not expressed doesn't exist.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.

You want to change Saudi Arabia? You send something like WWE.

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I can speak Mandarin fluently.

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

Cinema, art and culture should definitely be shared. These things transcend borders.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.

We have a very transient population. We have a lot of people that live here and work or play in New Orleans.

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text from it.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.