Chirlane McCray Quotes
I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.
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Positive thinking empowers you by building your unique skill set.
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For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
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I believe that the main lesson of relativity and quantum theory is that the world is nothing but an evolving network of relationships.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
