Michelle Hunziker Quotes

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

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

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.