Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
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Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
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I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like what I'm making.
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When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.
