Quotes About Diversity

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.

The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists.

The world needs thinkers, leaders, and doers more than ever, so neglecting the minds of half the population means a lost opportunity to benefit from their ideas, contributions, and actions.

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just got to be a basketball player or a rapper, because that's what I thought.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

I am an educator who thinks globally.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either 'Lord of the Rings' or 'The Hobbit.'

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.