Katherine Johnson Quotes
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
Quotes to Explore
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
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I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
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I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
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Every time I see my words quoted, I go, 'Yeah!'
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Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
