Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes
I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
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If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.
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The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.
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You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.
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I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.
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I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.
