DeRay Mckesson Quotes
I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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'24' is such an iconic show.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
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I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.
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'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
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You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'
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All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.
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'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'
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You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.
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I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
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Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.
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In the hallowed tradition of squishy doughball liberals, I believe that science, reason, kindness, and understanding—maybe a little food—can set the world right.
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I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.
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I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.
