Opal Tometi Quotes
I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.Opal Tometi
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
Iggy Azalea -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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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.
Vicky McClure -
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Beau Willimon -
I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
Vincent Cassel -
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
Bayard Taylor -
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale -
I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
Madeleine Stowe -
I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
Ted Sarandos -
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali -
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White -
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
Narendra Modi
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In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.
Tamsin Greig -
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
Jules Verne -
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck -
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis -
I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.
Opal Tometi