Opal Tometi Quotes
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
Quotes to Explore
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.
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Steve McQueen from 'The Getaway' is tough and independent. He can be diffident but is unabashed when it comes to love. And he's undeniably sexy.
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Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't get rid of it, when I try not to think about it and yet it's ambushing me all the time. I'm thrown up against a wall. The idea is saying to me, "You have to pay attention to me because I am going to be the future of your life for the next year or two or five." Then I submit. I get into it. It's something that becomes so necessary to me that I can't live without doing that project.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.
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We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
