Katherine Johnson Quotes
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I'm not super into sports.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
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I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
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I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
