Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
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When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.
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We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
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This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
