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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Usain Bolt
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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.
Damien Chazelle
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
Kariya Munda
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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.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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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.
Lorde
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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.
Diana Ross
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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.
Nicki Minaj
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
Naguib Mahfouz
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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.
Linda Blair
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
Kanye West
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
Rachel Cusk
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You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it
Marilyn Horne
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Where the world ends
The mind is made unchanging, for it finds
Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope,
The flagstone under all, the fire of fires,
The roots of the world.
William Butler Yeats
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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
William S. Burroughs
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As our closest living evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. We still do not have in our hands the answer to a most fundamental question: What makes us human? But this genomic comparison dramatically narrows the search for the key biological differences between the species.
Bob Waterston
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I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.
Michael Eric Dyson
