DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.
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The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
