Philip Emeagwali Quotes
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
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Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
