Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Bill Kurtis

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Earl Warren

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

David Twohy

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Archie Panjabi

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Aziz Ansari

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Doug Gay

(The patrol force) is pretty extensive, ... You are putting ethnic groups together ... It is quite a mix.

Ann Coulter

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

Miroslav Volf

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Catherine the Great

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Catherine the Great

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Carl Hiaasen

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Robert Davies

He does not see it as a racial thing,

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Warren Moon

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it was the first time.

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.