Philip Emeagwali Quotes
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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People trash talk me.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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Once I will arrive in the ring, I'm going to make the most of this fight because this fight I will remember for the rest of my life. From my point of view, this night is going to be remembered by the British people. Not from the American people as much, but from the British fans here who will watch me beat Canelo Alvarez.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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I would love to do a play, but I don't know about musical theatre. I've never done anything like that.
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
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I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
