Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

Michael Eric Dyson

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• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  

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• I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

  

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

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• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

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• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  

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• The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

  

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• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

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• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  

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• I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

  

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• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

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• Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.

  

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• I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

  

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• Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

  

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• When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

  

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• The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

  

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• This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

  

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• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

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• Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

  

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• When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

  

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• It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.

  

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• I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Interesting
  • Childhood
  • Challenges