Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Elvis Presley had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
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I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
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Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - that's important. Don't follow what other people are doing.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Elvis Presley had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.
