Bill Pullman Quotes

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

Globalization is a harsh god.

Societies, which were separated earlier by distances and borders and therefore predominantly homogeneous, now come in touch easily and become multicultural. This process, however, has been accompanied by attempts to establish the dominion of the rich elite over the rest of the people and of some cultures and world views over others, which is especially intolerable in the religious field

… we have learned to live securely, in peace and mutual prosperity among our Asian and Pacific neighbors. We will not be cut off from our British and European cultures and traditions or from those economies. On the contrary, the more engaged we are economically and politically with the region around us, the more value and relevance we bring to those old relationships. Far from putting our identity at risk, our relationships with the region will energize it.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

Distance and difference become irrelevant as our technology connects youth from Vancouver, Toronto, Iqaluit, Attawapiskat, Delhi, Nairobi - anywhere - to learn from and about each other.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.

This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

Kaaka Muttai' is the expression of an insider. It is a film about globalisation and its effects.

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

I guess as far as leftists are concerned, the United States can't qualify as a 'cultured society' simply because we've actually created a society that works.