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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Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.
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To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.
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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
