Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I need instant gratification.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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We're all about exploring new sounds, so we don't have any limits whatsoever about how we go about finding them. We do tend to sample human vocals or sample sounds, which allows you to create your own sound. That's not our only way obviously, but that's a way you can use a sound no one's used before; it's not a sound in the synth. There's a lot of that going on in our songs in general.
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
