Quotes About Equity

Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.

God does not play favorites.

Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice.

There is no love without justice.

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We recommended that the investor divide his holdings between high-grade bonds and leading common stocks; that the proportion held in bonds be never less than 25% or more than 75%, with the converse being necessarily true for the common-stock component; that his simplest choice would be to maintain a 50–50 proportion between the two, with adjustments to restore the equality when market developments had disturbed it by as much as, say, 5%.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.

I request big films to give way for small movies as there are umpteen number of such films waiting to see the light of the day.

We all require equal access to the justice system.

I think if we're going to have a requirement that everyone have equal access to insurance, you really have to have a way to make certain that everyone is expected to participate.

Whether a resident needs to get online to access homework or supplemental educational tools, to search for a job or start a business, broadband is a necessity.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy.

I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage' and saw that there was an audition for another project going on at the same time. It was called 'Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver.'

Fighting disparities is very significant.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

I consciously think about the ethnicity of every character that I create and cast. But one thing that is equally important is quality representation. It's not enough to put an African-American in there, a female in there, a gay character in there: How significant is their contribution? Can they drive the story?

After I made 'Better Luck Tomorrow' and started taking meetings in Hollywood, I quickly learned that Asian Americans weren't even in the conversation as a minority, since there wasn't even a significant enough audience, and especially an audience for Asian American content.

I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.

I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

Equal protection under the law mandates that similarly situated criminal defendants be treated equally, regardless of financial means.