Quotes About Diversity

Life is like looking out of a lot of different windows," explained Malcolm.

Was it this? Unlike as they were in everything upon which human friendship is usually based — unlike in upbringing, in modes of life, in habits, interests, and thoughts, poles apart in station and in appearance, there was yet a bond between them which needed no forging, but sprang suddenly and strongly into being at their first contact.

It is a queer little world that inhabits these quarters – speaking every known dialect of the British Isles – but they get on together marvellously well considering their propinquity, and there is a warm welcome at every door.

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

If you want to do a female version of 'The Expendables,' I'll be in that one.

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.

I've had friends of mine say, like, they're tired of 'gayface,' and I was like, 'What's gayface?' They were like, 'It's the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.'

I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

I look like a melanin version of Chris Hayes.

We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.

I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.