DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
Saint Basil -
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde -
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
Vanessa Mae -
I'd like to do more family dramas.
Aaron Eckhart
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie -
'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
Daddy Yankee -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams -
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Katharine Lee Bates -
Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
Diplo -
I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
James Joyce -
The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
DeRay Mckesson