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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Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents.
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The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.
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I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
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I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.
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First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.
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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.
