Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

Michael Eric Dyson

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• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

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• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

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• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

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• Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

  

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• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

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• Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.

  

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• The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

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• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

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• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

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• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

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• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

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• I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

  

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• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

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• For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

  

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• Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

  

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• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

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• If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

  

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• I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naivety - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

  

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• Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
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