Mija Quotes

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

Paris was a melting pot.

I lived in New York City for six years, and I was always amazed at how diverse everything was.

Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in just a few blocks. It was a whole world in one city.

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.

The Melting Pot

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.

Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.

New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.