Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The world is a force not a presence.
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As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
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The greatest filmmakers are not the ones who put everything in; they're the ones who can figure things to leave out, and in doing so, invite your participation.
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If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
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I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.
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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.
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That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.
