Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
Callan McAuliffe
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu
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Each the herald is who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ECONOMICS COCKTAILS. Ingredients: Austrian, Behaviouralist, Classical, Developmentalist, Institutionalist, Keynesian, Marxist, Neoclassical and Schumpeterian. ... Health warning: On no account drink only one ingredient – liable to lead to tunnel vision, arrogance and possibly brain death.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
Larry Holmes
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
Owen Feltham
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If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.
Kate DiCamillo
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.
Sheryl Crow
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Jesus, lover of my soul,let me to Thy bosom fly,While the nearer waters roll,while the tempest still is high.Hide me, O my Savior, hide,till the storm of life is past;Safe into the haven guide;O receive my soul at last.
Charles Wesley
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
Walter Benjamin
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Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.
Lady Gaga
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The dancing was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.
Evan Rachel Wood
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The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
Michael Eric Dyson
