Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things, ideas, and politics I'm concerned with than those who claim to be religious in the same way that I am but have no interest in the political reorganization of society, which needs to be talked about from the pulpit.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm on set. People call me 'Grace' ironically because I'm not graceful. It's ridiculous.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.
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My one big regret is that I didn't play on for ten more years.
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Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
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Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things, ideas, and politics I'm concerned with than those who claim to be religious in the same way that I am but have no interest in the political reorganization of society, which needs to be talked about from the pulpit.
