Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I love football, football is my life.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.
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I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.
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No day is alike, nor should it be.
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I always have my own attitude towards everything in life.
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.
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I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.
