Quotes About Acceptance

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

Much to my surprise, not a moment have I been made to feel, 'Alright, a woman - probably the prime minister wanted to make a token gesture.' The ease with which people have taken this thought of a woman minister has been a great strength for me and has made my job far easier.

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

There is no cure for PCOS so it's all about how to make living with it as tolerable as possible.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character SpongeBob is an oddball. He's kind of weird, but he's kind of special.

Don't tell me about tolerance. Don't tell me about acceptance. Look at me as the woman that I am and respect that.

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.

Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.