159 Ethnic Quotes for You to Enjoy

The challenge of Mosul and Nineveh is the considerable number of ethnic groups, religious sects, tribes, and other elements that make up the province. David Petraeus

Challenge Other Considerable Tribes Religious Make Make Up Province Up Ethnic Ethnic Groups Groups Elements Number

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds. Deborah Tannen

Women Men Differences Research Backgrounds Between Linguistic Women And Men Different Grew Conversations Interest Regional Ethnic Speakers Early Career

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski

Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves. Dmitry Medvedev

Work Music Myself You Young Nerves Some Only Student Mainly Like Calms Rock Foreign Rock Music Surprised Discovering Listen Listened Situations Different Places Then Ethnic Hard Different Places Hard Rock Many Even Now

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. Edmund Morgan

Needs History Result Black Gender Past Other Has-Been Black History Kinds Both Investigating Conceptual Limits Been Historians American Any Done In The Past Ethnic European Works Flood Away Deserves Among Things

If you put one model in a show or in an ad campaign, that doesn't solve the problem. We need teachers in universities. We need internships. We need people of different ethnic backgrounds in all parts of the industry. That really is the solution: you have to change it from the inside. Edward Enninful

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about. Eli Broad

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Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. Emma Bonino

Other Relations Issues Encouraging Handling Ethnic

When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people are at the top and people of other ethnic backgrounds are below. Eniola Aluko

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Eric Holder

Thought Nation Cowards Too Ways Though Melting Melting Pot Pot Always Proudly Continue Been Itself Essentially Racial Ethnic Many Things

When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time. Evan Hunter

Time Writing Police Thought Background Rank Would Would-Be City Detective Above More New Police Department Most Were Irish Department York New York New York City Interesting Ethnic Ethnic Background Use Actual Started

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate. Evgeny Morozov

Hate Problem Hungary Minority Everyone Countries Like Lot Huge Discriminated Republic Against Loves Ethnic Who Europe Czech Czech Republic

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos. F. Sionil Jose

Differences Instance Industry Real Very Explains Land Ethnic Among

It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested. Frank Lowy

You Game President Could Headway Attract Make Because Were Very Australians Any Not Interested Frustrating Interested Public Ethnic

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' Giada De Laurentiis

Mom Cheese Kid All My Friends Would Be Different Spinach Stuffed Over Days Come Like Make Friends Eggs Different Ethnic Cool Tomatoes

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China. Graham Elliot

Love Food People Style Think About Excited Almost Getting Just Different China Asian Really Ethnic Even

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix. Gustavo Dudamel

Great City Angeles Los Los Angeles Mix Cultural Very Ethnic Special

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

People Genocide Innocent Innocent People Cleansing Mass Bahrain Policy Ethnic

When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them. Hari Kondabolu

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood. Irwin Rose

School Our Birthplace Define Neighborhood Kids Brooklyn Only Variety Students New Although Limits Were Left York New York Unfriendly Interesting Public Ethnic Games Public School Gangs Enjoyed Competitive

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination. Ivan Krastev

Together Cooking World Collective Myth National Imagination Gave Melting Melting Pot Religious Critics Diverse Pot Argue Voluntarily New Device Identity Mix America American May Wherein American Identity While Informed Ethnic Producing Notion Groups

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. James Earl Jones

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds. James Maslow

Me People Financial School Amazing Few Backgrounds Collection Most Most Amazing Go Led Friends Upbringing Few People Being Different Ethnic Different People Who Even Groups Now

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce. Jan Chipchase

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