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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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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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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Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
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Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.
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You treat detainees humanely because you know the other side will also treat detainees humanely.
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
