You get to a new school, and you’re the new guy, or you’re the foreigner, or you’re the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it’s weird.
I’m not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare – changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time – the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton’s traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, ‘Americans are huge.’
I’ve never been a great shooter. I’m not a regular foreigner player.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
I always feel like a foreigner in America.
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.
Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.
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