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.

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.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

Aziz Ansari

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

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.

Kevin Bacon

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

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

Norman Finkelstein

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

Ann Coulter

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Fleischman

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Nelson Mandela

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Bill Clinton

hear the stories of the people fleeing the ethnic cleansing.

Ken Livingstone

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

In fact, in war today, the targeting of ethnic minorities is no longer the exception but has become the norm.

Georgi Parvanov

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

Michelle Obama

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.