Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

Globalize yourself!

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.