Different Backgrounds Quotes

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

Sofia Coppola

People, Different, Moments

"I don't like being told what to do", www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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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.

Ashley Jensen

Growing Up, Thinking, People

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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

Women, People, Parent

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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Michael Sandel

What Matters, Perfect, People

"What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel - review" by John Lanchester, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook

America, People, Diversity

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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Michael Sandel

Perfect, Democracy, Doe

Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.225, Macmillan

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No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

Michelle Obama

Beautiful, Where You Come, Matter

"Michelle Obama Offers Inspirational Words at 2015 Black Girls Rock!—Find Out What She Said!" by Corinne Heller & Alicia Quarles, www.eonline.com. March 29, 2015.

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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

George Lopez

Black And White, Ethnicity, People

"George Lopez enters the talk show wars". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2009.

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The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

Pete Cashmore

Issues, People, Way

"Pete Cashmore of MASHABLE". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

Zainab Salbi

Views, Different Experiences, Diversity

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

Barack Obama

Jobs, Children, Differences

First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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When it comes right down to it, people are quite similar. We may come from different backgrounds, cultures, and economic circumstances, and our attitudes and perspectives may vary. But in the heart-where it really counts-we're a lot alike.

M. Russell Ballard

Attitude, Heart, People

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We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.

Alexandra Byrne

Fighting, People, Community

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Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

Mark Pryor

Country, Thinking, Giving

"Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.

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Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Louis Nizer

Skills, Differences, People

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Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Sports, People, Different

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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

E. Lockhart

Color, What If, Being Different

E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.

Scott Rolen

Baseball, Doors, People

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Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.

Ahmad Rashad

Success, Sports, Teamwork

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A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.

Eboo Patel

Loyalty, Religious, Reality

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Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

Slash

Interesting, Trying, Different

"Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

Natalie Merchant

Girl, Summer, Memories

"Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Respect, Moving, Ideas

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If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

Todd Solondz

Jobs, Gun, People

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One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.

Amartya Sen

School, Eating Together, Class

Source: www.pbs.org

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