DeRay Mckesson Quotes
Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
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Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it.
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I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.
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The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
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Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
