Philip Emeagwali Quotes
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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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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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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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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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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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 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?'
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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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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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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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Injustice can never be stood for.
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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
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I always tried to fit in, so I was a cheerleader with the orange skin and white-blonde hair, and Hooters was part of that.
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In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
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Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
