Mae Jemison Quotes
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
