William Baldwin Quotes

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

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.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

We should not check American ideals at the door when we engage in discussions with other nations.

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

Our strength lies in the free development of national cultures. True internationalism is possible only if one has a profound respect for the dignity, honor, culture and history of each people.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.

Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

Genius and taste don't go together.