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.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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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.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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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.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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'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.
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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.
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You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.
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I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.
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The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.
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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.
