Quotes About Diversity

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.