Quotes About Diversity

I've traveled to the most glamorous places in the world, the biggest capitals of culture, and I've traveled to the biggest fuddy-duddy, slum life nowheresvilles... so I've seen a ton of stuff. I've been physically attacked at a McDonald's in Perth, Australia, in full drag.

I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.

As a chef and avid traveler, meeting new people and sharing a meal with the intent to learn more about their culture is important to me.

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

I do a lot of traveling around the world.

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

The different foods and cultures and geography and art - I could spend my lifetime traveling around India and still not fully know it.

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.

Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in Paris, but they're not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn't do Peruvian all that well, either.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.

One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

When I'm traveling, I like extremes. It's nice for me to go to Canada in the mountains where it's snowing or to Cambodia where it's stifling.

My parents always instilled in me to be a citizen of the world, so that's why I've taken to traveling and why it's such a huge part of my life.

Traveling around, being able to see all those cities, being with all the fans. Different people, different ways of life - it was exciting.

Traveling around the world to eat, it's a weird life, but I love it.

Traveling is a major source of inspiration. There is so much to learn from history and different cultures.