Mae Jemison Quotes
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
