Quotes About Diversity

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I think that's one thing that hinders hip-hop and I think when everybody tries to be the same... That's why people look at the 1990s almost like it was a golden era in hip-hop 'cause it was so much diversity in the music and in the artists. It wasn't everybody just trying to paint the same picture and say it with the same flow.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

I try to support all the women in my life. So absolutely, Aladdin tries to do that as well, and rightfully - rightfully so.

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

The choir tries to perform for everyone. It enables us to be very diversified with our audiences.

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.

I don't know why everyone tries to be like everyone else or just tries to make it to the top when they should be themselves and do their own thing.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

The hard-working Mexican tries to get up here looking for opportunities because America's one of the greatest countries in the world.

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.