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.

Ann Coulter

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Georgi Parvanov

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

Philip Gourevitch

In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

Justin Chon

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

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.

Ken Livingstone

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

Paul Fleischman

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

Michelle Obama

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

Sherman Alexie

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.

Kim Kardashian

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Ronald Reagan

Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.