Mae Jemison Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
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I think we know how to do Mars.
