Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.
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School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.
