Quotes About Diversity

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys.

I really love Japan, and I liked living there very much, and there are so many terrific things about Japan. However, I do think what's amazing is that Japan really prides itself on being monoracial. It doesn't have the same kind of idea as in the U.K. or Canada or the United States, in which the idea of diversity is a strength.

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

Music is beyond races, beyond territories.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

Immigrants are not the real problem. The real problem is much more serious: intolerance and hatred of indigenous ethnic groups. You can prohibit immigration, but what can you do about non-Russian ethnic groups living in their native territories in Russia?

I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor.

It's a reality that you get boxed and stereotyped, but I am not afraid of that. It's my quest as an actor to explore different territories.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.