Quotes About Divergence

I wanted to be different. I wanted to address everyone. I wanted to address the hood, but also the people that was getting money. I wanted to address the men and women, the kids and the adults.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike amoung them. Some approached pure blanching, some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which has possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadavourous tint, and to a georgian style.

A wise professor once reminded her graduate students in psychology that "there is more variation within a group than between groups.

Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they will hold up as a norm something that has never been seen on this planet, and regard as an anomaly something that is seen in country after country.

That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.

It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'