Diverse Quotes - Page 2

• Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Philosophy, People, Different

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• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  Les Claypool

  Nice, San Francisco, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

  Raymond Queneau

  Personality, Stories, Odyssey

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• I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Acting, Different

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• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Memories, Groups, Different

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• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Poet, Dylan, Allan Poe

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• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  Giambattista Vico

  Men, Mind, Doubt

  Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”

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• Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

  Larry Wall

  Maps, Hackers, Hard

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• I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Voice

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• Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Issues, Groups, Covering

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• Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.

  Jim Ryun

  Cells, Blood, People

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• What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Sound, Comfort, Answers

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• That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

  Jeff Miller

  Loyalty, Country, Self Confidence

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• Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

  David Del Tredici

  Energy, World, Composer

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• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

  Clifford Geertz

  Names, Numbers, Done

  "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  U Thant

  War, Safety, Diversity

  "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 14), 1968.

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• I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

  Mazie Hirono

  Buddhist, Gay, Government

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• American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Confidence, Fashion, Freedom

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• True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

  Pauli Murray

  Equality, Ties, Diversity

  Pauli Murray (2006). “Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings”

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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

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• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Style, Quality

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• The longer you verk here, diverse it gets.

  Scott Adams

  "Dilbert". Comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, dilbert.com. June 23, 1995.

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