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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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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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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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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Never dip lower than you can dip.
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Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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In 1970, the developed nations had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30 percent to 15 percent. By 2000, they were at parity: each had about 20 percent.And by 2020?
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I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.