Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
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  • Character

• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
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  • Difficult

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
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• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
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• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
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• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
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• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.

  

  Ram Dass

• Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Champion

• At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • People
  • Giving
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• My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Good
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• This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.

  

  Luke Treadaway
  • Funny
  • Morning
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• We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.

  

  Alexander Ahndoril
  • Children
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• I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Experience

• I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • War
  • Lost

• I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

  

  Joe Gilgun

• … exclude the need for appearances: what counts is not appearances; the value of life does not depend on the approval of others or on success, but on what we have inside us.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Life
  • Success
  • Value

• Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Business
  • My Heart
  • Broke

• Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

  

  Alfred Richard Orage
  • Education
  • Library
  • Read

• I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Mountain
  • Stuff
  • Library