Quotes About Divergence

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a preexisting closely allied species.

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.

Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing about it, but I find adolescence, and popular depictions of it, very interesting. I like to see where my own life intersects or diverges from notions of what a teenager is supposed to be, or what a black person is supposed to be, or a woman.

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

'Fly' really is the polar opposite of 'Girl in a Country Song.'

What I love is getting polarized opinions.

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.'

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

On immigration, the League and Five Star's positions start from notable distances.

I love to have contrast.

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

I have nothing against crossing over, but I don't need to change to cross over.

You shouldn't have to be a chair at a think tank to speak your mind.

Everyone is born. But not everyone is born the same. One way or another though, every human being is unique, for better or worse.

Robert Frost