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Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Baltimore Challenge City Got Lay Paths Politicians Politics Possibility Those Traditional Who

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Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: About Being City Executing Mayor Offering People Place Putting Right Right People Right Place Vision

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If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: City Free Free Speech Hall Know People Projecting Say Speech Started Would Wrong You

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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

~Derek Blasberg

Topics: Aware City Code Common Crowd Decency Fast Grew Honorable Joined Life Lot Manners Midwest Moral Moved Other People Sort Up Ways Who

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I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

~Derek Blasberg

Topics: Aware City Common Crowd Decency Fast Grew Joined Life Lot Manners Moved Other People Sort Up Ways Who

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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: About Always Been Checking City Contemplative Fellow Going Had He Just Life Like Made Me Monastery Often Out Perhaps Seeing Somebody Suppose Think Thoughts Vague Who

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I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

~Derek Jeter

Topics: Always Apple Believe Between Big City Comparison Hectic Me More New New York New Yorker Now Similarity Slower Smaller York Yorker

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I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

~Derek Luke

Topics: Came City Come Dreams Got Holding Just Literally Me Part Shirt Shows Sony Store Studios True Working

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I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

~Derek Luke

Topics: City College Failed Family Family Member Jersey Member Nicely Out Please Prepared Putting Say School State

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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Athens Became Been Before Citizen City Commercial Cultural Echo How Human Ideal May Me Pedestrian Port Proportions Spain Walker Where

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