Aravind Adiga Quotes

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

I would love to get a job in France!

When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

Everything has changed since I came to China.

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

When you do live abroad, you're basically searching for some kind of peace.

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I still remember my days in Komarock estate, the days when it was all normal, and even though I am born and bred in Belgium, I could easily fit in and feel like any other Kenyan.

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

Me being so comfortable being abroad is due to the fact I've always been away from home.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.