Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!
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Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.
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A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
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Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
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Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It's not a question of religious practice.
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I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.
