DeRay Mckesson Quotes
A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I'm an emotional person.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
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The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.
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A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.
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I'm probably more fiscally a Republican. But socially, I'm just accepting of everything. I want everyone to be happy; I want everyone to live a life that they're proud of.
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A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.
