Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
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Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
Marianne Williamson -
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
George Eliot -
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.
James Anthony Froude -
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
Joyce Meyer -
You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.
Andrew Wight -
That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out.
Willie Taylor
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I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.
Winsor McCay -
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
Paul D. Boyer -
Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.
Eve Arden -
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
Stephen Fry -
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
Vikas Swarup -
I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.
Questlove
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I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.
Eamon Dunphy -
In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
William Feather -
Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber -
Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
Carleton Young -
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
Leon Trotsky -
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
Nikola Tesla
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.
Thomas Sowell -
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
Michael Eric Dyson