Opal Tometi Quotes

In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.

Opal Tometi

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No matter what, all I want to do is win. I don't care what anybody says, any media outlet, anybody says as a person; the one thing they can't say is that I don't want to win.

Jimmy Butler

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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'

Jimmy Iovine

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If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Steven Pinker

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It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.

Tony Stewart

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Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.

Tony McCoy

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One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

Ruben Hinojosa

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The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

Chester Brown

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I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

Colin Greenwood

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'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.

Annie Wersching

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It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

Arthur Smith

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