DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.
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When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
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Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.
