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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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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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'
