Quotes About Diversity

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the West. I am open to do both - Indian films and films from the West.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

Regardless, one cannot help but marvel that the movement of security prices, the motion of molecules, and the diffusion of heat could all be of the same mathematical species. As will be seen, it is one of many such strange liaisons in nature.

Vermutlich muss man geraume Zeit in der Haut eines Menschen verbringen, der einem nicht ähnelt, ehe man zu dem wird, der man ist. Oder vielleicht hat man auch all diese vielfältigen Figuren in sich und muss sich von einer befreien, ehe man zur nächsten werden kann.

Il existe onze mots en gaélique pour définir les différentes sortes de pluie, comme il y en a quatorze au Québec pour décrire la neige dans tous ses états.

The men of the Foreign Legion bring their own worlds with them from their own places; their only common ground is intoxication.

The cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly told her students, "You're absolutely unique, just like everyone else." Projects are like that. Whatever sets a project apart, it shares other characteristics with projects in its class.

Look for it in the world, and you'll see it everywhere. A brick wall is made of hundreds of bricks. A flock of starlings, which moves as if it were a unitary organism, may be composed of hundreds or thousands of birds. Even our bodies are modular, composed of trillions of cells that are themselves modular. There's an evolutionary reason for this ubiquity: In survival of the fittest, the "fittest" is often a module that is particularly successful in reproducing itself.

Mail, by its very nature, was neither all good nor all bad. It carried indifferently messages both positive and negative, filtering nothing, making no distinctions.

La vostra Italy non e' la nostra Italia. Italy e' una droga leggera, spacciata in forme previdibili: colline al tramonto, olivi e limoni, vino bianco e ragazzi dai capelli neri. L'Italia, invece, e' un labirinto.

Evolution does not mark out a solitary route ... it takes directions without aiming at ends ... it remains inventive even in its adaptations.

The open society is one that is deemed in principle to embrace all humanity.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

A patriot will admit there may be honest men, and that honest men may differ.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

he makes he feel like she's back in south London, then she catches herself, it's not as cut and dried as it was before, he could be a relative, if there's one thing she's learned in the past forty-eight hours, anyone can be a relative

And the only culture she gets is the one she decimates with bleach.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

If you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.