Quotes About Diversity

Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

My whole life, I've always had one foot in the classical world and one foot in the rock, pop, and folk world.

People who don't like football don't appreciate my game, but I like it.

Ghanaians and English people enjoy football the same.

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

I'm a football player playing basketball.

There aren't many football players other than kickers who are Latin.

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

I would go on record saying that there is probably one gay or bi-person in every football team. They're there, they are 100 per cent there. I think people that are gay or from that community definitely are very worried about having to shoulder the responsibility of being the first. I think once the first comes out, there would be loads.

I appreciate every guy, whether he is a footballer or a cook.

You can't manage every footballer the same. Of course you'd love to, but it doesn't work like that. We're not robots.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.

From a football perspective, putting young footballers into art, or singing - you're doing something that's not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

I don't think where they live is important to footballers.

I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.