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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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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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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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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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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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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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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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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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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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
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There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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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.
