Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.Michael Eric Dyson
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid -
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza -
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle -
You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
Matthew Desmond -
We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.
Andy Grammer -
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
Ken Liu
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People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
Peter Berg -
Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.
Diego Costa -
I live for what I haven't done.
Donna Karan -
My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
Charles Barkley -
I really don't go to any parties.
Freddie Prinze, Jr. -
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
Bum Phillips
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
John Ratzenberger -
He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
Christopher Love -
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr -
Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
Elisabeth Shue -
For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.
Andra Day -
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
John Cameron Mitchell
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He could tell that the other expected him to be surprised, but it was not in him to be surprised because it was no more surprising to him when things did not fall out as they were supposed to than when they did.
Walker Percy -
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes -
I'm most proud of my family.
Muhammad Ali -
It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.
Jeff Sessions -
Hillary Clinton was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’s talking to me.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.
Michael Eric Dyson