Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.
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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.
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Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.
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My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.
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We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
