Quotes About Diversity

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.