DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
