Quotes About Diversity

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

Make sure there are lots of Harvard M.B.A.s working for MIT Ph.D.s in the future.

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

You can say that I endorse Mitt Romney, but that's not just because I'm a white man. We all have things which we're for and ideas which we support.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

You can't be serious all the time. You got to mix it up.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

Sports and politics don't mix.

I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.

I grew up around a lot of foreign people - it was a big mix but there were never any problems.

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

I like doing both TV and live stuff, though it's nice to mix it up.

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day, what's going to drive the story being told is what's going to drive people to the seats.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.