Quotes About Diversity

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.