Quotes About Global

Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

We do expect there will be some big centralised miners that will have a lots of storage and economies of scale. But there will also be a large cloud of small miners all over the world.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

You can't deny the experience of a store. It's fantastic if you're a global brand and you've got the power or the funds to support that bricks-and-mortar space, but we certainly weren't and aren't.

I always pick out my own clothes, 'cos I love hitting the stores, be it in India or abroad.

Whenever I am abroad, I spend hours and hours at video stores. I look for classics from filmmakers from all over the world.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that it is - that it isn't coincidental to the concurrent rapid spread of a very conservative strain of Islam that is paid for out of Saudi Arabia.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes sounds very global.

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

We may be a little bit late - we are late - coming to the recognition that we are in a strategic competition with China.