Quotes About Acceptance

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

It wasn't until I owned my body and really learned to love it - all of it - that my career just went to a level that I couldn't have expected.

I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you want a team that really wants you; head coach, GM, owner, everybody that really wants you in their place and the players believe in you. I'm looking forward to making somebody fall in love with me.

I think everyone is the perfect owner.

What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

In high school, I listened to Lady Gaga and I was really obsessed with just being who you are and owning that experience - she was a really big inspiration in that aspect to me and my friends, who were young and growing up, and making our way through the city and the world.

I went through a public divorce and wrote a project called '29' that really just is all about speaking your truth and owning the fact that we all go through things in life and it's all about what comes out of them.

If I find a dress I really like and it happens to be a bit short, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. The thing about going to Oxford is it does give you the confidence to be how you want to be.

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing before, but then it was something. So I became one.

Every one, we, we homosexuals, are people, and we need our oxygen to breathe.

We nonchalantly expect that next year's smartphone will be faster and better than this year's, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our lives could progress at anything like the pace at which technology advances and we meekly accept it when things go backwards.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Just don't let anyone judge you. Move at your own pace. Do things the way you want, and if people don't get it immediately, then make them understand.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

My mother used to pack me Filipino food for lunch, and I would get made fun of because of the way it smelled. Kids would make fun of me because of the way I looked and call me 'Ling Ling.'

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.