It’s a fair guess that at the rate we’re destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we’re pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn’t count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.
Diversity definitely makes the best wardrobe – you want to look in and see a range so you can always dress for your mood.
As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started ‘The Stanford Review,’ which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.
Given New York City’s cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
The uniformity of the earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
The only diversity in the Brits is with the Americans. I’ve been saying this for a while: for our country to do good, we need to embrace our country.
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it’s baffling.
In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.
I think the media can definitely show more diversity – different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.
My parents and I always look at movies and just think, ‘What’s missing?’ from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.
That’s how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.
Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
I just think we need to keep having open, honest, and encouraging conversations to ensure people are represented across all industries including our TV screens when it comes to diversity.
In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.
Don’t tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don’t debate it.
We should widen our economic base and encourage businesses to move up the value chain and increase job diversity.
The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.
Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation – fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
Fashion’s impact reverberates through our society, which is why it is so important that it celebrates diversity and champions inclusivity.
I wish we had more diversity.
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
I feel like if I had more diversity in my team I’d have been better equipped to deal with the experiences I had.
We need to educate young people, give them the possibility to understand that the diversity is positive, to feel and experience it, so that they can then join forces in promoting more diverse world.
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America’s lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
If all of my instructions to staff during the seven years I hosted a radio show were written down and examined, I’d sound a lot like Bruce Levenson. Hell, I might sound much worse. The path to inclusion and diversity is not paved with precise, pretty words.
In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.
For years, we’ve asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.
We must build a thriving and inclusive arts, restaurant, and nightlife scene to reflect Boston’s culture and diversity.
Claude Kirk could be hysterically funny and fearlessly bold, and he championed the environment, education, and diversity long before those issues were fashionable.
When you don’t have diversity in the creative process, you inevitably end up with a single, narrow perspective in the output.
Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
We believe our diversity makes us stronger, smarter, and more innovative, helping us better serve the needs of our clients, our people, and our communities.
It’s become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It’s time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
You can’t avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual orientation and all sorts of things.
I remember always going to the train station where I grew up, and on the wall was written, ‘The real wealth of a nation is diversity of cultures.’ Where I grew up, that’s what I saw, and that’s what I believe in as well – and I still believe it.
I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it’s in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we’re so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.
When it comes to the hijab – why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it – there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.
I played Pierre, a white Russian aristocrat, and my co-lead was Denee Benton. Two black leads playing not black people – it was an important moment for the Broadway community to say diversity is possible and it’s here.
Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We’ve been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n’ roll, metal, reggae – and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
It’s fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there’s a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
We’re stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
I like America’s diversity and its landscapes.
The Commonwealth Games is an event for everyone. I believe it continues because of the unity and appreciation in respect of diversity, different nationalities coming together to compete under one Commonwealth banner.
For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.
Diversity is where it’s at for me. I think we need more and that could be all kinds of different cultures, big conversations.
We need to have more conversations about representation as well as the imbalance in terms of needing more women behind the camera and in front of the camera, and the diversity factor.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.
I didn’t know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.
Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.
With the athletes, there’s a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there’s not that much diversity there. I think it’s diversity within those roles that’s needed.
