Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.
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I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
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When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
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There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
