Quotes About Cultural exchange

When Will and I were growing up in Los Angeles, his girlfriends were always Israeli, so we'd always be hanging out with Israelis in L.A.

I can speak a little Italian.

I speak a little bit of Italian.

I've got nothing to teach to the Italians - I love playing in this league.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

People come from all over the world to be on the show, and it still works because of all the interesting items coming in.

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

There's something about the U.S. and Japan: two opposite ends of the planet, two completely different languages, and yet, especially in menswear, they share this kind of idealized way of dressing that is so close to what we do in America.

I think, if anything, it would be fun to play at house parties or in Japan.

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.

I love Japan. I loved going out there and I love the fan base, and I loved everything that I was doing out there, but the opportunity to come home and to be on U.S. television and see my friends and family, the idea was to be able to tour the U.S. and be a part of that.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.

We'd play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Whenever my mom goes to Afghanistan, I'm just like, 'Bring me jewelry.'

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.

In the Fukien province of China, the Dutch learned the word tay, which means "tea" in the local dialect, and with this sound it was introduced to Europe. In fact, in Ireland and England it was pronounced tay until the start of the eighteenth century, after which the word was derived to tee and then tea—as we know it today.

Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.