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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
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Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.
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I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.
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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.
