Mae Jemison Quotes
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
-
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
-
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
-
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
-
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
-
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
-
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
-
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
-
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
-
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
-
Cussing ain't for everybody.
-
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
-
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
-
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
-
At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
-
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
-
I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
-
Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.
-
I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
-
I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.
-
When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
-
Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
-
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
