Vlade Divac Quotes

A lot of what you need to know about countries you can learn from open sources and by understanding the language and the culture.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

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?

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

I'm actually not from the United States. I'm from Uzbekistan.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

We are not now a country of Africa but a country of Europe.

The separation of the Western man from the seaboard, and his environment, made him in a large degree free from European precedents and forces. He looked at things independently and with small regard or appreciation for the best Old World experience. He had no ideal of a philosophical, eclectic nation, that should advance civilization by intercourse with foreigners and familiarity with their point of view, and readiness to adopt whatever is best and most suitable in their ideas, manners, and customs

I could have become an E.U. player if I'd wanted to, but I am, and prefer to remain, Argentine.

I love crossing borders.

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.

As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

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

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.

I'm always searching to learn more about our large and diverse country.

I am 100% Congolese and 100% Belgian. I am very proud of it.