Diverse Quotes - Page 14

• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

  John Sununu

  Country, Educational, America

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• The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

  Brian Froud

  Land, Legends, Fairy

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• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, People, News

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• I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

  Carrie Underwood

  This Generation, Generations, Feels

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• We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Business

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

  Meredith Vieira

  Character, Independent, Theatre

  "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Character, Apology, Grace

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• The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Diversity, Community, Outsiders

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.163, Vintage

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• What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

  Barack Obama

  America, Together, Earth

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

  Stanley Walker

  Sex, Drinking, Night

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• American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Strong, Men

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Acceptance, Cities, Tolerance

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

  John le Carre

  German Language, Bumblebees, Literature

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• A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Ambition, Creative

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Summer, Cousin, Dad

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• We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

  Billy Graham

  Jobs, Thinking, Diverse Society

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• This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Rose, Political

  "Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect". www.politico.com. December 09, 2013.

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• During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.

  TobyMac

  Christmas, Holiday, Rocks

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• When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Hope, Spring, War

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• Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

  Robert Kegan

  Strange, Tradition, Lifestyle

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• The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

  James Surowiecki

  Independent, Long, People

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

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• The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Race, Essence

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• The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Israel, People, Events

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