DeRay Mckesson Quotes

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

DeRay Mckesson

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I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.

Jesmyn Ward

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People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.

Andris Nelsons

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I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

Andre Ward

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Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

Meg Whitman

WorkUnderstandingSometimesLittle

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

Tom Hooper

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Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Mick Ebeling

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I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.

Michelle Paver

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I've got a lot of fans, but I say friends, because every time I meet a fan somewhere around the world, I don't consider them a fan; I consider them as a friend.

Jason David Frank

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Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

Dolores O'Riordan

GoodWomenTimeMenRock And Roll

My typical paradigm is that I do believe in public service. My father's a military man. He really does always speak about the fact that there is actually nothing more valuable that you can do than actually to serve your country. And I buy that.

Cheryl Mills

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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

Christopher Alexander

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