Dwane Casey Quotes

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they are to children in completely different countries because I am the import.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

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

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

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

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

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

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

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

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Cultural exchange rarely takes place on equal terms.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.