#variety

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#backgrounds #country #different #different backgrounds #diversity

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#avoiding #boredom #entertainment #means #more

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ↗

— Dave Barry

#extremely #how #journalists #know #little

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

#am #back #career #contrasting #dexter

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#demand #different #distinctly #film #get

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#age #bob #born #certainly #costumes

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety. ↗

— Bronowski

#balance #golden-mean #philosophy #science #thought

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#course #golf #golf course #great #holes