George Papandreou Quotes

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

I grew up listening to English music.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

I grew up in the United States.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

It takes three-quarters of the world in these days to hold the Irish family, and is pleasant to know that some of the elder sons of the family are considered by their discriminating fellow citizens worthy to be entrusted with the liberties and fortunes of their adopted countries.

I don't even know if I'm British any more. I'm transatlantic, I'm European.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I grew up in the States and Canada for a while because my mum came over in the 1970s. We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and then moved to Canada for a few more.