Nicolas Anelka Quotes

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

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

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

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

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

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.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

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.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

An English man does not travel to see English men.