Chirlane McCray Quotes

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

Chirlane McCray

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• Feeling

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• I love to cook. I could never give that up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Love
  • Never

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Movie
  • Man

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Love
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • May
  • War
  • Attention

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Black
  • Gay

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• Having seen first-hand how complex and difficult the job is, I believe it vital that the president be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Hand

• The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • World
  • Age

• When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • People
  • Up
  • Consistency

• People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Psychological

• I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Feeling