Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges. Mae Jemison Read Quote
America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal. Kenneth Frazier Read Quote
The best thing about New York is working late into the night. At 1 in the morning on a Saturday, to be still working, there’s an immense satisfaction in being enclosed by it. Colm Toibin Read Quote
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I’m grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated. Kim Gordon Read Quote
I did a lot of gasoline commercials – Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back. Ricky Schroder Read Quote
It changed my life, being in ‘Company.’ I didn’t think I was going to be an actress. Barbara Barrie Read Quote
My grandfather was doing business with a Japanese man. In exchange of good relationship the man taught my uncles the art of jiu jitsu. My father couldn’t do it because he was very weak, he couldn’t do one press-up, so he just sat back and watched, and memorised. What he did was add leverage into the moves. Royce Gracie Read Quote
I wouldn’t change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today. Sugar Ray Leonard Read Quote
When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height – it’s how to love yourself by moving. Christine and the Queens Read Quote
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Read Quote
