Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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Who wouldn't want to be Frank Sinatra's son?
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?
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Lateral thinking is closely related to insight, creativity and humour. All four processes have the same basis. But whereas insight, creativity and humour can only be prayed for, lateral thinking is a more deliberate process. It is as definite a way of using the mind as logical thinking - but a very different way.
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I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.
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It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.
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I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
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I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
