Quotes About Diversity

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.

I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.

I want to do everything. I can never decide on one occupation!

What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.

I've talked to people of every race and occupation. The bottom line is that we're all the same.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

We were in the main dining-room, and there was a fine-dressed crowd there, all talking loud and enjoyable about the two St. Louis topics, the water supply and the colour line. They mix the two subjects so fast that strangers often think they are discussing water-colours; and that has given the old town something of a rep as an art centre.

Sentirse solo no es sentirse inferior, sino distinto. El sentimiento de soledad no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

Lo que mueve a los mundos es la interacción de las diferencias, sus atracciones y rechazos. La vida es pluralidad. La muerte es uniformidad. Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades, al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte, nos empobrece y mutila. Cada visión del mundo que se extingue, cada cultura que desaparece, disminuye la posibilidad de vida.

Otherness is what constitutes us.

We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the more lovely the loving.

Jews are always strangers,' Harriet thought

I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to.

So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.

Our life experiences shape the way key systems in our brain organize and function. So each of us sees and understands the world in a unique way.

every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.