DeRay Mckesson Quotes
There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".
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I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
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Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
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The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
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There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?
