Words matter. These are the best Diversity Quotes from famous people such as David Mamet, Steve Hockensmith, Tyler Cowen, Richard Lamm, Courtney A. Kemp, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’
Zombies are a fairly new addition to the cannon of monsterdom. Really, the modern zombie goes back just to the ‘Night of the Living Dead.’ There’s a ton of material out there, but it seems like there’s not a lot of diversity out there.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
‘Diversity’ is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other. A ‘diverse,’ peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent.
I am tired of people using ‘diverse’ to mean ‘of color.’ That’s not what that word means. ‘Diversity’ means people of all different races, all together – like a New York City subway.
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity – a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
We’re supposed to be bringing out-of-the-box thinking and innovation, and you cannot do that unless you’ve got diversity… It’s everything from gender to ethnicity to geographic diversity.
Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.
While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.
Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates – that’s what makes this business work.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
It’s not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
Shows like ‘Empire,’ ‘Black-ish,’ ‘Scandal,’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ are expanding viewers’ perspectives on what people of color can be like. They’re showing more range. They’re showing more diversity within diversity.
I care about waking up to the true issues of the 21st century: inequality, diversity, and the impact of tech.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one’s principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
Diversity can’t be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.
America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It’s something I’m proud of when people think of America.
The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.
I’m someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.
If you’re in Alabama, you’re selling tax incentives – with all due respect to Alabama – because what else are you going to sell? In New Jersey, you’ve got location, public education, highly educated workforce, density, diversity, infrastructure.
I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.
We want to teach girls of color the skills they need and create a diversity of voices into the tech community.
If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater.
I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I’ve heard about our production of ‘Boys’ is that it’s a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can’t just drop people in willy-nilly and say, ‘Well, we’re going for diversity.’
You don’t have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court – diversity, sportsmanship and, most of all, a commitment to unite fans.
We need to do a better job of supporting diversity and inclusion within all sectors of our economy, including agriculture.
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Our focus on melanin and people’s skins – can’t we talk about the diversity of ideology? Can’t we look at people for their minds and what they can contribute? And I’d like to see us go more toward a respect for people’s ability to contribute, and I actually want to get to a society where we disregard race.
If there is an all India party in the country, it is the Congress. This is a party of poor people which believes in unity in diversity and which does justice to all.
A lack of diversity permeates our industry, and SAG-AFTRA as an organization is committed to effecting change.
Investments in diversity are critical for the long-term viability and future competitiveness of WWT.
If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you’re doing dishes, you’ll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
I think, overall, there is a lack of diversity in the arts. I’m thinking about when I was in grad school: I could probably count on one hand the number of minority students in the graduate school program.
While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
The vast diversity of looks from the 80s are why we mustn’t ignore it completely, there is plenty to build a modern and relevant wardrobe around, and I am enthusiastically kicking my leg warmers in the air in its defence.
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
I’ve done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that’s all you – all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Cultivating diversity in all its forms – of our content, products, and people – is one of our most important business imperatives.
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That’s what made it work in the first place.
There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn’t know existed.
Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.
The ‘low’ quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it’s great to see an increase in diversity.
I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.