Quotes About Exploration

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

Pop music for introverts is an idea I wanted to explore.

Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.

Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that goes off on extended forays of extrapolation into different areas. So it's kind of nice to be able to move between those two poles.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.