Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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There was the normal high that comes from the hormones of youth, that fresh sense of being unchained. But also there was the omnipresent feeling that It could go down. In those moments-which back then were all of our moments-your neurology was always code red.
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In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
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I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A-minus action movie. We kind of elevated the material a little bit. It's got a great car-chase scene at the very beginning. It has some terrific moments in it, some funny stuff. It's a great rental.
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I'm looking forward to having one of those moments that will be immortal.
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I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.
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I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
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I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
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I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.
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Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.
