Opal Tometi Quotes
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.Opal Tometi
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat -
I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen -
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
J. J. Watt -
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
Taylor Lautner -
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
Candace Kita -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong -
The Internet is a toilet. It is.
Lady Gaga -
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis -
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer
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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
Kanye West -
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
David Wilkerson -
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
H. G. Wells -
Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
Gene Luen Yang -
With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
Opal Tometi