Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • War
  • Day

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Get

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• I've always been a dreamer.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Always
  • Been
  • Dreamer

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Years
  • Look

• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Habit
  • Nothing

• 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Long
  • Game
  • City

• When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Thinks

• If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Dog

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Psychiatry, as a subspecialty of medicine, aspires to define mental illness as precisely as, let’s say, cancer of the pancreas, or streptococcal infection of the lungs. However, given the complexity of mind, brain, and human attachment systems, we have not come even close to achieving that sort of precision. Understanding what is “wrong” with people currently is more a question of the mind-set of the practitioner (and of what insurance companies will pay for) than of verifiable, objective facts.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Medicine
  • Lungs
  • Infection

• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

  

  Ben Vereen
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Rest

• All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Country
  • Home
  • Mean