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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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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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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A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
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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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I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.
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When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.
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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.
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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.