Quotes About Acceptance

To be honest, I don't really care if I'm starting or coming off the bench.

If I'm on the bench, it's the bench. If I'm playing five or 30 minutes, I'm good.

Even if I'm the 15th man on the bench, the first man off the bench, or I'm starting, I'm still part of that team.

I'm not worried about who's starting and who's coming off the bench.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

When I was young, people used to be like, 'You look just like Halle Berry - out of Losing Isaiah.' I don't care; she was still beautiful in that movie!

I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.'

The funny story was that I actually quite fancied David's best friend Jerome first, and then Jerome let me down easy that he was gay. He's now one of my best friends and I married David.

I've got very long limbs and for the best part of my life, they've been very uncoordinated.

For me, I just began, eventually, to embrace what I had. This is what I have to deal with and, not just deal with, but this is what I have to share, and how can I do that the best way.

The best way to get people to accept you is to move about the community and show them there's nothing to be afraid of.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

The night that I fought Bigfoot, he was the better man. He beat me that night. No excuses.

If everyone could see everyone else the way their mom saw them, it would be a much better place for all of us.

The fear that ultimately leads to hate is something we need to change, and I want to do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

We're all people. We all need to just try and find a way to love each other and accept each other and try and make the world a better place.

I couldn't ever be a better player than I was in 1988.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.