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Mae Jemison Quotes

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1956

Topics

Time Professional Dancing Got Paid

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

Family Wife Dating Lake House New

There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.

Life Time Depression People Think

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

Son Moment Perspective Cool Peaceful

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Challenge Excellence Me Challenges

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Good Music Reading Way Always Quick

I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.

Love Day Sleep If I Could All Day

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

Daily Perspective Me Process Living

West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don't think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.

Best Progress Me Think Back Choice

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

Family Father Children Organization

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Good Myself Feeling Copy Young Old

I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.

Family Home Children Waiting Me

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Foundation End Frontier Policy User

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