Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
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The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.
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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.
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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.
