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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Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.
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Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.
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I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
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The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
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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.
