Katherine Johnson Quotes
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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I think timing is everything.
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
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A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.
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For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.
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Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
