DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
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We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
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We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
