Quotes About Diversity

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

I worked at ILM the same time Masi Oka was there. Who would have thought that two Asian-American nerds from ILM would be on hit shows?

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.

I was a nerdy jock.

If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.

You should really cast a big net when it comes to life and learning. In the end, you're so much better for it.

I look back at the bubble as a net positive. Maybe it's because of how my career continued to go from there. Maybe it's because I got to cover things that aren't often the central focus in sports.

I'm not asking myself, 'How I can be different from Netanyahu?' because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.

There are many differences between Netflix and Comedy Central.

I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.

'Black Mirror,' now being on Netflix, can reach all kinds of different people all over the world - with the help of the Internet, rather ironically.

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?

I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

Women drive network television.

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.