Quotes About Diversity

I'm about as privileged as you can get. I'm a white, male, heterosexual front man of a rock band.

Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.

Many books that tell you how to achieve come from a privileged position. If you can't see yourself in the advice, how can you use it?

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

Football is for everyone. It's not for the privileged, it's not for the few, it's not for the elite.

The strength of the platform that I am privileged to have is that I reach a massive group of diverse people.

I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting it. We have to look at the holistic experience of all women, or assigned women, on the planet.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.

The generally big places in the world, the big countries for pro wrestling or lucha libre are Mexico, U.S.A., Japan, and U.K. And now WWE is in all countries and it's different.

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don't see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn't do that with the amount of people we have.

My pro program is going to reach out to more than just the people who have had the luxury of going to makeup school. Personally, when I was a kid, I couldn't afford that. That doesn't mean that they can't be at a professional level.

I think it's something much bigger than just pro wrestling and the industry I work in. It's across all media. You look at Hollywood movies: there's not the Muslim hero or the guy who looks like me and has a name like mine who is portrayed in a positive manner or in a leading role. So, growing up, I didn't have a role model that looks like me.

If you speak pro wrestling or MMA, you almost speak any language.

There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.