Chirlane McCray Quotes
I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
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I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
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I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.
