Quotes About Acceptance

You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.

I'm just as happy to be Polish as I am to be German.

When I was 13 I would come to school with makeup and nail polish and I had teachers who would say, 'We can't teach you and you're not allowed in class.'

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we're incredibly opinionated or we're not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely and they like to tell their stories, and I like hearing them.

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.