DeRay Mckesson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
-
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.
-
Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
-
Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
-
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
-
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.
-
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
-
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
-
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.
-
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
-
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
-
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
-
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
-
Never dip lower than you can dip.
-
The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
-
Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
-
I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
-
This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
-
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
-
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
-
Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
-
Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.
-
There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!
-
Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
