DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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I am not honest.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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I love tap!
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.
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During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
