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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The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.
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At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
