DeRay Mckesson Quotes
I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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We just here to do our job.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
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I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general.
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I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
