Opal Tometi Quotes

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

Opal Tometi

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I am attracted to dumb people.

Jesse Watters

I AmPeopleDumbAttractedAm

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Ross Lynch

MyselfMeThinkBackDownEarth

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

Marvin Ammori

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I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

Michelle Carter

ThreeBeenGaveOlympics

The Bush administration and its 'we'll liberate you by invading your countries' doctrine is thankfully behind us. It is up to us to fight for our rights inside our communities.

Mona Eltahawy

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It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Douglas Hofstadter

LawYouAlwaysExpectTakeEven

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

Chris Hadfield

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Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

David Shields

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Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Bret Stephens

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