Opal Tometi Quotes
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
Opal Tometi
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
Orhan Pamuk
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
T-Pain
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
Garrison Keillor
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Aaron Eckhart
I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
Paget Brewster
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
J. D. Vance
Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
Sade Adu
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of
T. S. Eliot
It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
Yolanda Hadid
They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
Milarepa
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
Opal Tometi
