Shohreh Aghdashloo Quotes

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

The world is such a small place.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

I love how small the world is.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

Society is unity in diversity.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.