Mae Jemison Quotes
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Quotes to Explore
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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This love is silent.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
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Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.
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No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.
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If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
