#dive

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#action #advantage #always #between #comedy

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#american #american music #been #diversity #importance

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#degree #demos #did #diverse #guy

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well. ↗

— Bill Ford

#desperately #diversify #frankly #how #into

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

#best #composers #diverse #energy #iconoclastic

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired