Philip Emeagwali Quotes

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Philip Emeagwali

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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.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Hard
  • Virtue

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wise
  • Others
  • Himself

• 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.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Book
  • You
  • Wait

• If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • You
  • Me
  • See

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • English
  • Speak

• Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Cool

• You know what’s the real fight, the real money fight. It’s me

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Real
  • Money

• My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Job

• Them that's got shall get Them that's not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that's got his own That's got his own.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • God
  • May
  • Bible

• Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • Up
  • God
  • Listening

• Now it feels like no one ever left me out in the rain, cold words still remain unspoken.And I never got lost, spent years in the dark.You're here, now my heart's unbroken.When I see you smile, fill my soul again, and I'm unbroken.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

  

  David Bergen
  • Character
  • Curiosity

• They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

  

  George C. Wallace
  • Bridge

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

  

  Philip Emeagwali