Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for Donald Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.
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I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
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When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.
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Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.
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I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.
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Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
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What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for Donald Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.
