Philip Emeagwali Quotes
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
