Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I've traveled around the world.
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'
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Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.
