Mae Jemison Quotes
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
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The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
