Opal Tometi Quotes

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

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• Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Party
  • Sometimes

• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
  • People
  • Up
  • Guilty

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Loyalty

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Change
  • Support
  • Party

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Question
  • Party
  • Independent

• Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Party
  • Proud
  • Club

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Hollywood

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Service

• I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • World
  • Real
  • Party

• He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• Good plain soldiering wins wars. Doing mundane things well is what counts.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Good

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Child

• I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Very
  • Actually
  • Deliberate

• I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Party