Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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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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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
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I was really shy as a kid.
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No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.
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My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble... but then again, they're my most loyal friends.
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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
