Quotes About Diversity

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday 'Times.' You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review... even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.

It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic.

I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.

As a black Republican you sort of find yourself in unique territory.

Even in a given territory what would work in one city in front of one crowd might not work in front of another crowd. Every crowd is different in what they are looking for and what they'll respond to.

If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

I would never call people that are born in this country who are from Mexico 'terror babies.'

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?

Terror outfits like ISIS don't believe in a plural society and diversity of faith, which reflects inherent beauty of human beings.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.

If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

Bottom line is, you're not going to win the war against terrorism without the help of Muslims... as well as Hindus and a lot of other groups. That's a no-brainer. Many attacks have been thwarted because of information coming from people of different faiths.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.