Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cliff Martinez

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Colin Quinn

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

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Steve Aoki

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

We've got the same kind of diversity as in the previous years. We have some of the same genres this time, since Irish music and Cajun music have been such big hits.

Ellen Willis

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Bill Buford

Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.

The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

This set of photos shows the diversity of things we've been seeing on Mars during the last several months,

This was a great quarter for 3M with broad-based contributions from our diverse portfolio and particularly strong results in our industrial and electronics-related businesses.

Robert Lanza

When you get down to a few dozen members of a species you're really talking about very serious problems, ... So this is a tool. From now on that there's no need ever really to ever lose that genetic diversity that's remaining in these wild populations.

We were told by the police that we were not welcome at the diversity rally.

This year's program includes the most exciting and diverse range of topics that we have ever seen in the Rhodes Institute.

We put together what I think is a really solid and really diverse field for this year's championship.

We will do a program for a problem area. We are doing one on religious diversity soon.

Vandana Shiva

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Vandana Shiva

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

Dan Simmons

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

To the rest of the state, Northern Virginia is a single-cell amoeba. Those of us in Northern Virginia see its individual parts. It's far more diverse than the rest of the commonwealth thinks of us.

Trust and safety is a huge division in the company. They have a number of safeguards in place, but it is a very diverse market place. The question, I think, is are they doing enough? Could they be doing more? Should they be doing more?

True to form, we got great kids out of the area. It's a very diverse group. We got some big linemen and some great skill kids, too.

Claire McCaskill

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

Barack Obama

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

We have kids from 30 different countries. We have a very diverse population.

Most Americans don't understand the diversity of people in West Africa.

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.