Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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We need to develop people rather than process them.
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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to America's economic future, that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industries, keep us competitive, and spark new innovation.
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It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.
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We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
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Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.
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A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
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Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
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My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
