Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1958

Topics

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It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.

Jerry West

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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Michael Gove

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Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

Michael Hayden

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

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Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

Trinny Woodall

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert Bork

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Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

Mikko Hypponen

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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Michel Foucault

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I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Michael Learned

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There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

Derek Bok

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My people were divided about surrendering.

Chief Joseph

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