J. K. Rowling Quotes

Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

Let the path be open to talent.

I like potential in people. If I find someone who has lot of potential and can do something with life, then I don't see bank balance, which family he comes from, or his religion.

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

I don't care if it's a white millionaire kid from Oxfordshire who comes to my show, buys my record, supports me and rates me. It's cool.

If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.