DeRay Mckesson Quotes
When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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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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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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War is over if you want it.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I don't complain.
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Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
