DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Kids
  • First
  • New

• In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Job
  • Opinion

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Comfortable

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Idea

• I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Age
  • Working
  • Lucky

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Body
  • Looks

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

  

  Black Elk
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Friend

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Hand

• The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Couple

• It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Dream
  • Running

• In my end is my beginning.

  

  Mary Queen of Scots
  • Beginning

• Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • City
  • Challenge