Opal Tometi Quotes
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
