"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

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Philip Emeagwali

“Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.”
“To accept oneâ€™s past â€“ oneâ€™s history â€“ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
“The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.”
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
“The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.”

Source : "Holt McCallany and Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 19, 2011.
“I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.”
“Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.”
“Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love”

Source : Kabir Edmund Helminski (1992). “Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self”, Tarcher

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