Opal Tometi Quotes

We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.

Opal Tometi

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Social MediaForwardBlackMedia

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Jerry Seinfeld

LovePeopleThoughtInternetComedy

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Jessamyn West

TalentWritingHelpfulGuts

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Jenny Slate

LifeExperienceHumanSurprising

Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.

Andy Mineo

MusicGodPeopleEndHelpGoing

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Michael Ignatieff

PowerFireGovernmentDemocracyGo

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager's brother answered the phone.

Steve-O

BrotherYellowCityNameLoved

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Shimon Peres

MatterUpImagineWorkersInflation

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Shirley MacLaine

WorkHomeNeverUpStayWould

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Michele Bachmann

HistoryWarBackNeverCutBeen

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

Julia Roberts

LoveLove IsViolinWithoutGoat

I'm a Buddhist.

Joni Mitchell

Buddhist

On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.

David Steinberg

MeEnthusiasmYearYouEverything

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