Quotes About Diversity

I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'

Whether players are from Albania or Yugoslavia is not important. What's important is to be a team on the pitch.

I could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

I wasn't treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the 'Development England' side at the age of 13 and I had no extra boundaries just because I was Asian.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.

In terms of writing and developing, TV is very open because TV needs stories. They need new pitches, and they need new ideas. They don't always take the risk for new ideas, but they are certainly open to it. They can't have enough people come in and pitch to them. It doesn't matter how they look or what gender they are.

When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face.

I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

I come from gender-balanced workplaces. I started off working in medicine, and when I went through med school, it's 50/50 men and women. And when I started working as a doctor, it's 50/50 men and women. So I've always been very accustomed to women occupying pivotal roles in the professional environment.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

I like my fried chicken, my pizza, my peaches and my gefilte fish.

Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It's the love you have for yourself and if you have a family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.