Katherine Johnson Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
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One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.
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I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
