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Katherine Johnson Quotes

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

Katherine Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 26, 1918

Topics

Family Education Focus Childhood Our

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Life Great People Democracy Think

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'

Meetings You News Sometimes Say Far

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Time Remember Now First Time First

I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother and people of her generation. They say, 'Hopefully, one day.'

Change Mother Myself Day People Say

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Music First Electronic Music Album

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

Future Forward Investment Intelligent

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Life Animal Safety My Life Harvest

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fly Philosophy Aim Way Out Show

I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

Power You Being Telling Lot

I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

Clay Matthews III

Myself Job Game Go Want High

I was a referee in TCW in Carrollton, Georgia, doing Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, and it was 1,000 degrees in there, and it was completely sold out every Friday that we ran it. That was my dad's independent promotion.

Friday Doing Promotion Independent

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

Future Science Me Book Write Head

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