Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elinor Ostrom

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Errol Morris

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

Laura Harring

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

Bernie Sanders

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

David Weinberger

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

Traditional arguments in favor of diversity often focus on ethics, morality and constitutionality. I wanted to look at the observable effects of diversity on performance.

William Adams

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Andrea Dworkin

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Wolfgang Tillmans

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

There is more diversity in this year's promotional schedule than ever before. While there are a ton of new things each night at the park, fans will be happy to see many of traditional entertainers and themes return, too.

I am proud to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which has one of the largest and diverse populations in the country.

Abraham Lincoln

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Aleister Crowley

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

We were able to use our divers in swimming events and it turned out each of them can help us as swimmers, so we're not complaining. I told the kids it was disappointing they couldn't dive, but here was another opportunity for them. I also reminded them that they are all sophomores and they have plenty of time to work and get better.

Roxane Gay

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

Toby Keith

I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.

Ms. Moore embodies the talent and diversity of some of New York's finest actors.

Ciara

No one is different from the other. I'm very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.

Paul Krugman

But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at the Republican National Convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.

Olympia Snowe

More mouthpieces doesn't guarantee diversity and localism and competition, ... Diversity of ownership does.

Nevada is a perfect testing ground for a candidate, given its diversity.

New Hope was one of the most diverse towns that I had ever been in.

Greg Clark

Fremont is a diverse community, and I'm looking forward to working in it.

I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

I have always tried to get Tim to be a little more open-minded and diverse in his thinking,

Bob Schneider

I can't perceive of a football playoff in the private school sector with a diversity of teams,

Cameron Crowe

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Cesar Chavez

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Alan Dean Foster

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Colin Quinn

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.