Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Quotes

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

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

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

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

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

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.