Desiree Rogers Quotes

Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.

I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

A constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

When you bring multiple cultures together, there's a degree of push and pull.

I learned so much from the people in Seattle. They taught me everything from community to business relationships.

I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.

When you go out and meet new people, you can come up with new ideas and be enlightened and help the country become a better place.

Sport can transcend bias.