Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.
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Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'
