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.Mae Jemison
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley -
I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
Eddie Trunk -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
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.
Barbra Streisand -
This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara
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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.
Natalie du Toit -
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
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.
AJ McLean -
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.
Rafael Nadal -
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.
Ralph Abernathy
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
Paige VanZant -
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.
Karen Robards -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
M. John Harrison -
I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush -
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
Anne Frank -
Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.
Deeyah Khan -
It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
Alexander Lowen -
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.
Mae Jemison