Christopher Dodd 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.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

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.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

In my experience, Eurosceptics are likelier to have lived abroad and to have entered fully into other cultures than Euro-enthusiasts, many of whom seem to have latched on to the E.U. as a way of compensating for their poor language skills.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

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

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

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

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

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

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

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

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.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.