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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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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Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
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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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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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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
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Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
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I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
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Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
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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.
