Opal Tometi Quotes
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.
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I've stopped questioning things and how things work.
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
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To give the best of the day to your work is most important.
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I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.
