Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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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.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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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.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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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.
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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?'
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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
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I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
