DeRay Mckesson Quotes

The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.

DeRay Mckesson

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• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
  • Busy

• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Long
  • City
  • Football

• I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • City
  • Hard

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

  

  Gallant
  • City
  • New York
  • Prison

• New York is a fantastic city.

  

  Marat Safin
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Watch
  • Through
  • Pilot

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • She
  • City
  • Wife

• With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Culture
  • City

• It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Job
  • Experience

• By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Mind
  • City

• I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • People
  • Great
  • City

• Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Running
  • City
  • New

• I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Character
  • City
  • Identity

• Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

  

  P. D. James
  • Country
  • City
  • Cities

• Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Sad

• No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • World
  • Lost
  • Nice

• The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • City