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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It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
