Mae Jemison Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
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Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
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I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
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I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
