Maurice Allais Quotes

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

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.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

I want my words to survive translation.

I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Global disorder is here to stay, so the challenge is to make it work as much as possible.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

You know, we live in a crazy world, I have to say.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.