Katherine Johnson Quotes

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Katherine Johnson

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Say
  • Africa
  • African

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • College
  • Baseball
  • Finish

• 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.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Personally

• 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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

  

  Chanakya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Women
  • Age
  • Running

• When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Complacency

• I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education