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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• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• '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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Friends
  • Place
  • Come

• '24' is such an iconic show.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Show
  • Iconic

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Opportunities
  • Australia

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• 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.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Age
  • Parents
  • College

• 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• 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!'

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • God
  • Amazing

• All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.

  

  Tacitus

• The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

  

  Alfonso A. Ossorio

• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • You
  • See
  • Ownership

• I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

  

  Bob Corker

• The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

  

  Nivin Pauly
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Affected

• I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

  

  DeRay Mckesson