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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  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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Country

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

  Star Jones

  Different Experiences, Together, Groups

  "CNN Live Today" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 30, 2006.

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• My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

  Susan Lucci

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Team, Believe, Views

  "CEO Forum: Rosenfeld keeps Kraft from being too cheesy". Interview with David Lieberman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. December 10, 2009.

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• My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

  Josh Charles

  Jobs, Play, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people have different backgrounds and opinions, and there's nothing you could do about it. And that's what I've realized to shape, I guess, who I am.

  Jordan Spieth

  Nice, Texas, Who I Am

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• For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

  Mike Dirnt

  People, Unity, Important

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

  Brie Larson

  Different, Path, Stage

  "Room's Brie Larson Talks Oscar Buzz, Amy Schumer, and Her "Hilarious" 13 Going on 30 Cameo". Interview with Ashley Spencer, www.usmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

  Desi Arnaz

  Two, People, Together

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Numbers, Giving

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

  Ernest Istook

  Father, Son, America

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• I was interested in immigration and I wanted to use that in the film, not necessarily to talk about immigrants, although I wanted to do that, but to talk about ourselves through the eyes of an immigrant. The film takes place in the school and it tells us a little bit about who we are and where we're at, but through the eyes of someone who has a different background.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Eye, School, Immigration

  Source: collider.com

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