Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
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I was quite nervous in my first week at Barcelona, but after that, I was relaxed.
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It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.
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There's going to be space travel at some point.
