DeRay Mckesson Quotes
We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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I know how to separate my own laundry.
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I'd rather enjoy meals, order bottles of red wine and eat creme brulee at the end of dinner. Then, when they call you for a photo shoot, you just go, 'Okay, time to hit the treadmill.'
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The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
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I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.