Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
Fat Joe -
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
Natasha Trethewey -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
Utada Hikaru -
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray -
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
K. Flay -
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera -
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher -
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
Lady Gaga -
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
Daddy Yankee -
One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
Jack Dangermond
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
Lu Yu -
I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
Salman Rushdie -
Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.
Christine Lagarde -
All our anxieties relate to time. … The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.
Fulton J. Sheen -
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali