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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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
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Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
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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.
