Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Writers are so important.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
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Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.
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You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.
