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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Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.
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In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!
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Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around great fires in enormous houses of stone. If you want a bearskin, do you attack in summer when it is strong and fast, or cut its throat as it sleeps?
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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.
