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.Michael Eric Dyson
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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.
Damian Lewis -
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.
Larry Wall -
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.
Hamilton Jordan -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
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.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
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.
Lactantius
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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.
Dakota Johnson -
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
Kate McKinnon -
I've traveled around the world.
Carly Fiorina -
Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
Nate Parker -
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.
Jackie Chan -
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
Cameron Dokey
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
Zosia Mamet -
I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.
Dalton McGuinty -
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
Laurie Graham -
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
Christopher Lee -
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Kevin Kwan -
I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
Jane Byrne
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My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And then Stevie Wonder came up and sang 'Ribbon In the Sky.' It was impromptu... It was cool... He's always been a friend and a mentor to me.
John Roger Stephens -
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
Vance Havner -
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.
Glenn Miller -
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
John Cleese -
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.
Michael Eric Dyson