John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition.

I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

The more diverse we are, the better off we are going to be in the global marketplace.

Globalize yourself!

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

The young people of every nation are coming to resemble each other more and more, and are slowly becoming strangers to chauvinism and racism.

Cheap goods are the artillery for battering down Chinese walls and for overcoming the obstinate hatred entertained against foreigners by semi-civilised nations

The most important fact of the 20th century will be that the English and the Americans speak the same language.

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilization

Russians would make charming visitors at New-Yorke, and civilize that part of America wonderfully.

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

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

Our offices across the globe may not be very similar in terms of the way they look, but they are very similar culturally.