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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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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Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.
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Private jets cost a lot of money.
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This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
