Aja Naomi King
Aja Naomi King

Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.

Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols

The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold

'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

Alexandra Cassavetes
Alexandra Cassavetes

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

Ali Krieger
Ali Krieger

When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.

Allu Arjun
Allu Arjun

I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the people of Andhra embraced my Telangana dialect.

Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner

My biggest hero was my mother. She told me every day that I could do or be anything. I knew it, I believed it, and I embraced it.

Chris Gethard
Chris Gethard

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.