Opal Tometi Quotes
I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.
Quotes to Explore
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
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An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.
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I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.
