Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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That's where the money is, on the road.
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A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.
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If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
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I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?
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I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.
