Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

(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.

ASAP Rocky

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

Kevin Bacon

My kind of stuff, ... I like all kinds of ethnic foods.

I'm always wanting to learn new things. That's why I majored in American ethnic studies.

John Thorne

From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.

I'd like to say it's German and they sing German songs on their porch, but it's not true, ... You see ethnic neighborhoods go downhill. This one went uphill.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

Hari Kondabolu

When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

Daniel Tosh

I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.

Cliff Curtis

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind.

guarantees freedoms and equalizes between everyone, women and men and different ethnic groups and respects the ideologies of this nation and the religion of this society.

James Carville

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.

Pankaj Mishra

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,

The mayor has reached out to every community, every ethnic group and every New Yorker.

Freida Pinto

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

Mark Noll

Evangelicalism in the New York region has been transformed dramatically in the past 25 years by the full-blown ethnic transformation of the churches.

Jalal Talabani

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution

Isaac Mizrahi

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Jeffrey Rosen

They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can't be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It's, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn't close.

George Carlin

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

What we are seeing is ethnic separation still going on,

Joe Lhota

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.