Quotes About Diversity

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.

There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

Football is football, and a thousand things can happen.

My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet, when I graduated in 2000, I had yet to encounter a single openly LGBT student there.

I think it's important to have diversity in comics for a thousand reasons. It's not just some airy conceptual thing: it's important to reflect the humanity of the readership.

New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this — animated, but collateral.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I believe in God and feel his presence, but I am intrigued by John 10: 16: "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." Since He sought the rest of the world, how do I know he didn't reach them? He appeared to us in a form we could understand—why not to others within the context of their cultures?

can no longer accept a society in which you are told that there is only one point of view from which politics, and indeed life itself, must be judged.

What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other

Some of us start out whole and stay that way. Some need a spare part or two. Henry - he was a bits-and-pieces kind of guy

There are a lot of different people to get on the same page. And there's a big dinosaur in the building: the existing school discipline program.

When Van Til says that 'the principle of unity and diversity must be equally original,' this is a biblical must, made necessary because God is one God and yet triune. The equal ultimacy of the one and many is directly derived from the doctrine of the Trinity.

It is no accident that a culture such as ours, which is alarmed by challenges to its self-evident superiority, is confused about the past, in some of the ways outlined in our first chapter.27 And it is a major irony that a culture determined to affirm diversity is so poorly equipped to understand the difference embodied in its own history, the distance between past ages and ours.

Para qué narices queremos jirafas que se parezcan a sí mismas?

Dmitri said he would be be around the 500th Russian and liked to joke that by the time he got there, Canadians would be the exceptions in the NHL and people would be complaining that they were taking jobs from Russian boys.

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.

It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.

la monstruosa, la tormentosa, la irresistible capital del cheque. Rodeada de islas menores, tiene cerca a Jersey; y agarrada a Brooklyn