“Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.” PeopleMadeI CanDifferentStoriesGrowsParticularAmbitionProjectsLet MeDrivenBackgroundsFilmmakerBeing The BestDocumentariesBest FilmDifferent Backgrounds Author:Lucy Walker
“It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.” PeopleWantImportantDifferentCountryPlayerStudentsFootballLike YouBackgroundsVarietyExposedFootball PlayerDifferent Backgrounds Author:Paul Gigot
“I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.” PeopleDifferentTogetherPurposeHumanityMy OwnLevelsCommonCareersStageExampleLoversInvolvedMessagesCommitmentPerformancesUniversalHarmonyHip HopBackgroundsHipsHopsCommitteesPearlsGet InvolvedPower Of MusicDifferent BackgroundsMusic LoverCommon Purpose Author:Russell Simmons
“It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantDifferentCountryStatesSchoolTogetherBackgroundsGood EducationDifferent BackgroundsDifferent FaithsSlag Author:Ed Miliband
“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.” PeopleDoeDifferentMatterCoursesSocialPerfectCommonDemocracySharePositionCitizensOrdinaryBackgroundsEncountersWhat MattersBumpsOrdinary LifeDifferent BackgroundsCommon Life Author:Michael Sandel
“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.” PeopleGivingChildrenDifferentStoriesJobsFacesBeliefDifferencesChanceAbilityPayRepublicanAnxietyDeserveOvercomingWeightBillsDemocratBackgroundsAspirationBetter LifeGet AheadNumbingDifferent BackgroundsDifferent Beliefs Author:Barack Obama
“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.” DifferentBigsMightSufferingGamesSeeingModernEventsDesignBenefitsPropertyPatternsVariousListsBackgroundsDespiteApplicationSuspicionProgrammersBoostDelegatesDifferent BackgroundsEscalation Author:John Carmack
“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.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCultureActorsGrowsGrowing UpYouthMeetingsTheatreBackgroundsMixingDifferent CulturesDifferent ReligionsDifferent BackgroundsYouth Theatre Author:Ashley Jensen
“The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.” DifferentCountryHumorPoliticalStudentsMonthsBackgroundsPolitical HumorYaleDifferent Backgrounds Author:George W. Bush
“For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.” WritingDifferentShowsCultureBitsBackgroundsVillageDifferent CulturesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Paulo Coelho
“Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above all, we can bring people with different backgrounds and different knowledge together to discuss our problems. This actually gives me hope. I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.” PeopleThinkingGivingChildrenStillsDifferentEnoughProblemHomeEarthTogetherPastLanguageTeachPlansPlanetsSmartGive MeBackgroundsPlanet EarthDifferent Backgrounds Author:Jane Goodall
“For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWritingTwoImportantDifferentFilmGivenTermImportant ThingsMeetingsUniversityValuableWhat You WantBackgroundsDifferent PeoplesFilm SetValuable ThingsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.” PeopleBelieveWellsDifferentCountryAbleTogetherAmericaPoliticalBeliefI BelieveDifferencesReligiousOughtCongressBackgroundsReligious BeliefDifferent BackgroundsPolitical Beliefs Author:Seth Moulton
“I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.” PeopleIfsMenWorldHumansSaidDifferentWarStoriesDreamNationsWishCommunityExistenceStruggleBabyPrayingCoupleScriptureBackgroundsHorribleSecureFormerMilkTribesHuman ExistenceSustenanceNew BabyYugoslaviaDifferent BackgroundsBosnians Author:Eboo Patel
“I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanDoeTwoDifferentReasonRealityYoungAskingBackgroundsBuddhistBaptistsPluralismDifferent Backgrounds Author:Eboo Patel
“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.” PeopleHeartMayDifferentCultureAttitudeEconomicPerspectiveCircumstancesBackgroundsVaryDifferent Backgrounds Author:M. Russell Ballard
“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.” DifferentDecisionViewsHealthyDiversityBackgroundsDecision MakingStemUnifiedDifferent ExperiencesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Zainab Salbi
“Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.” DoePerfectCommonDemocracyShareCitizensDifferent BackgroundsCommon Life Book:What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Source: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
“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.” PeopleIfsDifferentHappensJobsImagineGrewGrew UpGunBackgroundsShootingDifferent DirectionsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Todd Solondz
“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.” PeopleDifferentOpinionNiceShapesBackgroundsWho I AmTexasBeing NiceDifferent BackgroundsBe Nice To People Author:Jordan Spieth
“Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.” DifferentPathStageValuableBackgroundsDifferent PathsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Brie Larson
“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.” PeopleDifferentAmericaLanguageGoalAbilityCommonPrinciplesDiversityBackgroundsDifferent BackgroundsCommon Language Author:Ernest Istook
“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.” DifferentAmericaFatherAbilityCommonPrinciplesTaughtSonGrewDiversityGrew UpBackgroundsImmigrantsSpokesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Ernest Istook
“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.” LittlesDifferentUseEyeWantedSchoolFilmBitsLittle BitBackgroundsImmigrationWho We AreImmigrantsThrough The EyesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonHappensInterestingGroupsMembersBackgroundsCaliforniaExploringCultDifferent Backgrounds Author:Brit Marling
“It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.” PeopleTwoDifferentTogetherAttractionBackgroundsReally AmazingDifferent Backgrounds Book:A Book Source: A Book
“When you have two different women coming from two very different backgrounds, it's fun for us because we get to explore how each one of them approaches their job and how they bring their own experiences to it.” TwoDifferentJobsFunApproachBackgroundsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Sasha Alexander
“The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.” DifferentAbleDressesBackgroundsComplimentDifferent Backgrounds Author:Erdem Moral?oglu
“Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.” DifferentWarIssuesOrganizationClintonIraqBackgroundsIsisBarbaricDifferent Backgrounds Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.” PeopleWantDifferentFilmArtistCitiesCastsBrilliantBackgroundsInner CityDifferent Backgrounds Author:John Boyega
“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.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsDifferentIssuesBackgroundsDifferent WaysDifferent Backgrounds Author:Pete Cashmore
“I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.” WorldFirstsDifferentCharacterTogetherFilmOrderFeltRolesNew YorkFirst TimeScriptsBackgroundsSensationsAcademicIntuitiveDifferent BackgroundsAquariusClara Author:Sonia Braga
“In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.” IfsNeedsDifferentSelfMightBlackMovementDiversityBasesGreenFolksBackgroundsShockedConferencesFeesDifferent BackgroundsGreen Movement Author:Van Jones
“I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.” PeopleThinkingMenWantHas BeensDifferentCountryStoriesPoliticalRaceIssuesSharePositionParticularTrumpMen And WomenBackgroundsTowersPersuasionQualifiedCabinetsPrivate SectorEthnicitySuccess StoriesPublic SectorDifferent RacesDifferent BackgroundsRace And Ethnicity Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.” PeopleDifferentCountryWalksBackgroundsWalks Of LifeDifferent CountriesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Junaid Jamshed
“Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!” WayDifferentWholeTogetherAmericaNationsEffortWonderfulIdentityModelsBackgroundsInstanceDifferent WaysDifferent BackgroundsNational IdentityHomogeneityMilkshakes Author:Kabir Bedi
“I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.” ChildrenTwoBookDifferentWould BeTogetherGirlSummerBackgroundsGetting OldGetting OlderChildren's BooksDifferent Backgrounds Author:Judy Blume
“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.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“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.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsImportantDifferentShowsTogetherThis WorldUnityBackgroundsGet BackMicrocosmDifferent Backgrounds Author:Mike Dirnt
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantLongDifferentWantedArtistGenerationsMessagesRapBackgroundsUnexpectedCapabilityMy GenerationGreat MusicComposingDifferent Backgrounds Author:ASAP Rocky
“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.” WayGivingChildrenHas BeensDifferentFilmNumbersPlansTvsBirthOriginalsSeriesExtraordinaryFollowingDuesBackgroundsOur TimeMumBetter WaysJanuaryMillenniumTv SeriesDifferent BackgroundsJanuary 1 Author:Robert Winston
“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.” PeopleWorldIdeasDifferentMovingRespectBackgroundsAspirationVillageDifferent PeoplesDifferent IdeasDifferent BackgroundsGlobal Village Author:Lakhdar Brahimi
“Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.” PeopleIfsDifferentParentWomenTaughtPrejudiceBackgroundsBiasDifferent BackgroundsDowngrading Author:Barbara Bush
“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.” PeopleDifferentEndsWalksDoorsFieldsIdealsBaseballBackgroundsThe End Of The DayDifferent PeoplesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Scott Rolen
“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.” PeopleIfsHumansImportantDifferentHardTogetherSuccessValuesFallSportsGoalForgetCommonTeachGroupsJourneyAchieveHard WorkGloryFundamentalsPerseveranceAthleteBackgroundsHandleWorking TogetherMotivational SportsNever ForgetTeamworkDedicationForget ItHuman ValuesDifferent BackgroundsCommon Goal Author:Ahmad Rashad
“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.” PeopleKnowsNeedsIdeasDifferentMomentsRealityTogetherYoungSocialReligiousKnow HowGenerationsYouthEntrepreneurHistoricalLoyaltyBackgroundsOur TimeMutualGreat IdeaExtremistPluralismDifferent Backgrounds Author:Eboo Patel
“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.” PeopleWorldShouldDifferentHelpingTogetherCultureFightingUnderstandingCommunityNeighborBackgroundsCensorshipDiverseConstructsFirst AmendmentStrengtheningDifferent BackgroundsFreedom To ReadCultures Of The WorldDiverse Cultures Author:Alexandra Byrne
“Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.” TryingMadeDifferentInterestingFiguresBackgroundsPairsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Slash
“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.” PeopleAbleTogetherBlackWhiteBackgroundsBlack And WhiteGreat TimesEthnicityDifferent Backgrounds Author:George Lopez
“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.” ThinkingYearsDifferentHomeEarthGirlCommunityMemoriesTreeTaughtGrewLessonsMembersSummerYears AgoEndureBackgroundsUniformsNursingVisitingEarth DayBadgesCampingStay With MeSummer CampBeing A GirlDifferent BackgroundsNursing HomeTree PlantingGirl Scout Author:Natalie Merchant