DeRay Mckesson Quotes

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

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• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Nature

• I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Career

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Health

• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Small
  • Design

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Growth
  • India

• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Champion
  • Wait

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Business
  • Today

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
  • Wealth

• Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Consequences
  • Genes
  • DNA

• Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Ugly

• I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Crazy
  • Playing
  • Characters

• I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Excited

• If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Start
  • Sing

• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  

  David Stockman
  • Way
  • Policy
  • Theory

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• Redbone’s music is a great piece of musical history that can make listeners feel good. What is better than that?

  

  Pat Vegas Redbone
  • History
  • Piece
  • Listeners

• The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Innovation
  • Dead
  • Desktop computer industry

• I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

  

  DeRay Mckesson