Different Cultures Quotes - Page 3

• I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.

  Wyomia Tyus

  Opportunity, Careers, Track

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• Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

  Jacinda Barrett

  Work Out, Different, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Children, War, Views

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• We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Teamwork, Respect, Country

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• Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

  Naomi Klein

  Nike, Morning, School

  Naomi Klein (2009). “No Logo”, p.119, Macmillan

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• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Book, Dark

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• One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Creating, Different

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.19, Vintage Canada

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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

  Jessie J

  Growing Up, Different, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

  Alicia Keys

  America, Race, Black

  "'I love Chopin. He's my dawg'". Interview with Ian Gittins, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2002.

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• What I like about modelling is that it has given me that opportunity to travel and experience different cultures, work with creative people, and now it's given me a voice, and with that voice hopefully I can do good things with it.

  Miranda Kerr

  Opportunity, Voice, People

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• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  Salma Hayek

  New York, Believe, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

  Arabella Weir

  School, Kids, Appreciate

  "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Team, Different, Culture

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• I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

  Navi Rawat

  Different, Culture, Actors

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• The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Believe, Ignorance, Civilization

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• There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Tennis

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• I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Race, Different, Culture

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by by G. M. Gilbert, p. 120, 1995.

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• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Diversity, Perspective

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• All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against the next boatload approaching the shore. To defend one’s home and fields and ancestral graves against invasion seems a right. But to claim unique possession – to compound the fact of settlement with the aspect of a landscape into an abstract of eternal and immutable ownership – is a joke.

  Neal Ascherson

  Home, Unique, Population

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• I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.

  Ben Kenney

  Cat, Hbo, People

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• I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.

  Amartya Sen

  Believe, Friendly, Quality

  "Think a West tolerant intolerance against Muslims is wrong and dangerous". "La Stampa" Interview with Mario Baudino, Amartya Sen, January 30, 2003.

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• I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

  H. G. Wells

  Thinking, Two, Doubt

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• Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

  Michael O'Leary

  Beach, Couple, Spain

  "The Saturday interview: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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