Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
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Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.
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The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
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People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.
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I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
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I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.
