Quotes About Global

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

What's happening in crypto - and certainly what's happening at Ripple - we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.

At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

If you are educated in English-medium schools, you get a better view of the world, develop more liberal values, have more gender sensitivity and become more forward looking. But you pay a price because you don't know your own language.

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.

From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill each other?

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Even if dubstep is a massive global concern, with hardly any racial barriers between artists or crowds, it has been usurped in the UK by a style that was practically a carbon copy of the original immigrant sound-system way of doing things.

Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

we have the uncanny knack of focusing on difference; as if excluding others could make our sense of identity stronger. And yet, in all my travels, I have found that people are mostly the same everywhere.

Everyone will think I'm ugly. Tik Tok smiled. That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.