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.

Opal Tometi

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Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.

Matt Cartwright

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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

Alvaro Enrigue

WorkHistoryRealityCountryCome

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Amal Clooney

SuccessSleepMeNightLawyerYou

You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

Rupert Graves

GoodPersonalityMeYouCreateOut

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Javier Bardem

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You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Brandon Lee

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My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

Brendan Gleeson

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You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Alice Walker

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There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

Peter Steele

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More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

Richard Neal

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