Quotes About Diversity

The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should be made possible for them to take on every role, including the jobs of physician, military officer, judge and president of a country.

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

You should have personalized genomics, personalized physiology, personalized medicine, where each person's different, and each body is an integrated whole.

I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass lines, but what I love about house is you can mix it up a bit.

I like all music... My parents both just loved music from all genres. I don't have a favorite; I just love music. That's why I want to play the piano.

My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child!

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.