Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to create a safer and more secure world.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

In all your intercourse with the natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit.

Today we must secure not a clash between civilizations, but a reconciliation and bringing together of the values of Islam and Christianity.

… technologies that convene different cultures do not always help them interact peaceably.

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.