Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.
