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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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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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
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Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.
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When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
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I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
