Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," in Detroit, as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.
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I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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Hey, I wasn’t a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
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I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," in Detroit, as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.
