Beth Hart Quotes

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Well, I love Europe and I love Europeans; when I look at my own personal travel, for most of my life, 80 percent of it has been to European countries. And that was long before I ever considered becoming an ambassador or was offered the opportunity, because I love everything about Europe. I like the culture. I like the food. I like the charm.

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

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

The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.