Katherine Johnson Quotes
Our teachers made such a difference - all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.
Quotes to Explore
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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The Internet is an amazing development.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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I started off as a recording engineer and a beatmaker. I was this skater kid that would skateboard to auditions, and then I would use the money I'd make and buy a bunch of equipment and make a bunch of beats. I still am that kid, just with a little more money.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed 'the squirrel brain' are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
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Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
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'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.
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My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready.
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That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.
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Our teachers made such a difference - all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.
