quotes about Affirmative Action

“What I love is finding immersive jobs. I've always wanted a challenge.”

“Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.”

“Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.”

“That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.”

“Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.”

“I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.46, Andrews McMeel Publishing

“The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.”

“One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.”

Source : Irving Howe (1994). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harcourt

“Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue...”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

“The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vampire Diaries,' and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them. Every time I go back to Toronto, I see them and hang out with them.”