#divers

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment. ↗

— George Pataki

#around #buildings #clock #community #diverse

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. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #around #backgrounds #common #common language

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. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #around #backgrounds #bilingual #come

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher. ↗

— Robert Shea

#club #diversion #does #ideals #magazine

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 best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#best #diversification #funds #mutual #mutual funds

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule. ↗

— David Coleman

#companies #diversify #executives #historically #owners

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security. ↗

— Jane Harman

#committee #diverse #how #include #intelligence