Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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I have never seen so many celebrities and their pets in one place, giving such support to the cause of protecting animal rights. Protecting their rights should always be our first priority.
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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For me, my music has always been like an open diary.
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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
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Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.
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If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?
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My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.
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I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.
