There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.
I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.
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.
I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
