Opal Tometi Quotes
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I never thought about being famous.
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I’ve gone through a couple of periods where I’ve lost the plot a little bit. That’s when you need good people around you.
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Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.
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Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.
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We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
