Philip Emeagwali Quotes
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
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Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.
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No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
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If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.