DeRay Mckesson Quotes
I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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I'm very candid.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.
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I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Imagination creates reality.
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I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
