Opal Tometi Quotes

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

Opal Tometi

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In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Jill Lepore

WorldLearnYouCitizenKindergarten

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Jilly Cooper

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To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Jerry West

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I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

John McLaughlin

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A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

Max Beerbohm

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Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

Matt Rosendale

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If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike - it means as much to them as it does to the company.

John Quelch

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It's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil.

Amanda Knox

LifePeopleFightingDevilMedia

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

Stephan Jenkins

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I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

Skylar Astin

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Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.

Tom Clancy

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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Rudolf Arnheim

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