International Experiences Quotes

Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

When you have kids it's nice to have a place where they can always return to and some place where they will grow up in, but I never had that. I'm not attached to things and places. I like that we [the family] keep moving. It's a nomadic life, and I think that's a great life. I'm excited when we take our kids to a new country and they don't just immediately look for the comforts of home. They blend into that country. Send them to any place in the world and they won't be scared. They'll just feel like they can make friends there.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'

Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

I'm in a happier place because my dreams are coming true. I'm acting in feature films, and I'm travelling the world. Before, I was just broke.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.