DeRay Mckesson Quotes
For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
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For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.
