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.

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Office

• 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.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• 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.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• 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.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Road
  • Curiosity

• 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.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

  

  Jenna Elfman
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Innocent

• I've been pretty damn happy since 2001. More apparent danger than real danger for me, and even the apparent danger hasn't kept me from feeling warm, safe and loved. I've found love and a partner to raise three children that I'm glad to have brought into this beautiful world.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such as Beethoven's remains illumined, or sees in the darkness shapes it never saw before, which inspire rather than terrify. This altered shape (raptus, he would say) makes art of the shapes, while holding in counterpoise such dualities as intellect and intuition, the conscious and the unconscious, mental health and mental disorder, the conventional and the unconventional, complexity and simplicity.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Darkness
  • News
  • Simplicity

• I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

  

  Dr. Seuss

• 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.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People