Philip Emeagwali Quotes

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

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• Isolationism is over.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Over
  • Isolationism

• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Want
  • Person
  • Polite

• In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Chance

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Art
  • See
  • Canvas

• I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Boxing
  • Obsessed
  • Jiu jitsu

• In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Power
  • Order
  • Nuclear Power

• When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Women
  • Experience

• Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Boat

• In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • World
  • Great
  • Celebrity

• Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

• I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Women
  • Game
  • Know

• The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Crazy
  • Internet

• One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People

• The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• The failure to prosecute trivializes the acts constituting the crime, suggesting, in the case of President Bush, that torture, disappearance, cruel and inhuman treatment, abrogation of our treaties, violation of our laws on privacy, deception of the Congress, and subversion of the constitutional checks on war making are minor matters, easily overlooked. It means rejecting what used to be regarded as core American values, and even worse, sends a clear signal to future presidents that they may act with similar disregard for the law.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • War
  • Law
  • Failure

• Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

  

  Joe Dante
  • Journey

• Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

  

  Philip Emeagwali