Quotes About Acceptance

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.

'13 Reasons Why' includes LGBTQ people and people of color in stories without making it about that. They're just living, breathing, human beings who happen to be different from the white, cis, straight norm.

Disagreement is something normal.

Let's embrace being not normal!