Chirlane McCray Quotes
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
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My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
