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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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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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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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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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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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
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The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
