Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

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.

Abroad is bloody

I lived in Italy for two months when I was in college. And I traveled to Paris. I traveled to Egypt. I traveled to Spain. I just would travel a lot. I remember going to Paris and saying, speaking French, 'I would like some chicken and some fries.' And just the chicken and fries was, oh my gosh, just so amazing. I became intrigued and inspired.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

You get educated by traveling.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.

I love traveling. I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling, to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie.

Every time you are on a tour you miss Indian food.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason - then to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture.

Journey are very big in the Philippines.

I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, 'Go abroad.' So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.