Paul Gigot Quotes

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.

I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

We're a country here, that if you take a picture of what America looks like, you can do It in a football stadium or a basketball court and you see all different kinds of Americans There. We're pretty proud of that, the different looking Americans that are still Americans.

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

I think it's incredibly important that we think about diversity in the context of the White House press corps, because it's important that the group of people there is representative of the diversity that we see throughout the country.

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?

I think in general, and in the film industry, that idea of having only one type of girl is changing. There's more variety because it's the world we live, and we want to portray that.

I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.

The England team is made up of good people, first and foremost, and we are a very multicultural side, too. I believe we represent our country well and our diversity is one of our strengths.