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

• 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

• By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie, and [Marco] Rubio. But they've all avoided him in one form or another.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Donald Trump
  • Candidates
  • Dealt

• I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say 'Oh, I'll go back and do the theater.'

  

  Peter Falk

• As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

  

  Niklas Zennstrom
  • Entrepreneur
  • Faster
  • Originator

• Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Up
  • Action
  • Die

• 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