Mae Jemison quote: "The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth."

The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that...
MAE JEMISON

You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
MAE JEMISON

One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we&#...
MAE JEMISON

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a co...
MAE JEMISON

When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries'...
MAE JEMISON

There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before on...
MAE JEMISON

When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at...
MAE JEMISON

I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for p...
MAE JEMISON

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreograp...
MAE JEMISON

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
MAE JEMISON

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not t...
MAE JEMISON

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding ...
MAE JEMISON

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin ev...
MAE JEMISON

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little st...
MAE JEMISON

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connec...
MAE JEMISON

I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen ...
MAE JEMISON

I always knew I'd go to space.
MAE JEMISON

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological o...
MAE JEMISON

I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do somet...
MAE JEMISON

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is peopl...
MAE JEMISON

The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to ...
MAE JEMISON

For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality,...
MAE JEMISON

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60,...
MAE JEMISON

I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of thi...
MAE JEMISON

I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut pro...
MAE JEMISON

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our s...
MAE JEMISON

Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being re...
MAE JEMISON

The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What wo...
MAE JEMISON

The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and we...
MAE JEMISON

My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get conf...
MAE JEMISON

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
MAE JEMISON

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
MAE JEMISON

I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More peo...
MAE JEMISON

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
MAE JEMISON

Painted skies-I've seen so many that cannot compare to your ocean eyes.
MAE

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for...
VANESSA MAE

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
MAE WEST

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is ...
VANESSA MAE

Music will always be my greatest passion.
VANESSA MAE

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
VANESSA MAE

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basicall...
VANESSA MAE

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but trainin...
VANESSA MAE

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest t...
VANESSA MAE

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
VANESSA MAE

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
VANESSA MAE

Music is about the performance.
VANESSA MAE

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
VANESSA MAE

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an...
VANESSA MAE

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m...
VANESSA MAE

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in eith...
VANESSA MAE

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to...
VANESSA MAE

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself ...
VANESSA MAE

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it...
VANESSA MAE

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat a...
VANESSA MAE

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
VANESSA MAE

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
VANESSA MAE

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
VANESSA MAE

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
MAE WEST

Act because you love to act.
MAE WHITMAN

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
MAE WHITMAN

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enou...
MAE WHITMAN

The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was ...
MAE WHITMAN

My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my ...
MAE WHITMAN

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really...
MAE WHITMAN

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things l...
MAE WHITMAN

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i...
MAE WHITMAN

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the...
MAE WHITMAN

Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing....
MAE WHITMAN

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredi...
MAE WHITMAN

I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pas...
MAE WHITMAN

There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th...
MAE WHITMAN

In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to...
MAE WHITMAN

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
MAE WHITMAN

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big b...
MAE WHITMAN

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
MAE WHITMAN

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am...
MAE WHITMAN

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
MAE WHITMAN

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think ab...
MAE WHITMAN

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int...
MAE WHITMAN

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is ...
MAE WHITMAN

I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total...
MAE WHITMAN

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN

Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer quest...
MAE WHITMAN

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
MAE WEST

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
MAE WEST

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
MAE WEST

When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
MAE WEST

So many men, so little time.
MAE WEST

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
MAE WEST

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
MAE WEST

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
MAE WEST

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
MAE WEST

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
MAE WEST

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
MAE WEST

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST

He who hesitates is last.
MAE WEST

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
MAE WEST

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST

Sex is an emotion in motion.
MAE WEST

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
MAE WEST

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
MAE WEST

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
MAE WEST

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
MAE WEST

I'm single because I was born that way.
MAE WEST

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
MAE WEST

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
MAE WEST

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
MAE WEST

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
MAE WEST

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now ju...
MAE WEST

When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before.
MAE WEST

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
MAE WEST

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
MAE WEST

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
MAE WEST

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
MAE WEST

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
MAE WEST

You're never too old to become younger
MAE WEST

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
MAE WEST

Sex is an emotion in motion
MAE WEST

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
MAE WEST

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
MAE WEST

I speak two languages, Body and English.
MAE WEST

You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing
MAE WEST

The best way to behave is to misbehave.
MAE WEST

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
MAE WEST

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
MAE WEST

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
MAE WEST

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
MAE WEST

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, ...
MAE WEST

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
MAE WEST

To err is human - but it feels divine
MAE WEST

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
MAE WEST

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
MAE WEST

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
MAE WEST

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
MAE WEST

Men are all alike--except the one you've met who's different.
MAE WEST

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
MAE WEST

Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
MAE WEST

Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
MAE WEST

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself
MAE WEST

It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
MAE WEST

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
MAE WEST

Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.
MAE WEST

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
MAE WEST

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
MAE WEST

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
MAE WEST

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
MAE WEST

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right no...
MAE WEST

Sex is emotion in motion.
MAE WEST

A man's kiss is his signature.
MAE WEST

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...
MAE WEST

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
MAE WEST

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
MAE WEST

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
MAE WEST

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
MAE WEST

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
MAE WEST

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
MAE WEST

You are never too old to become younger!
MAE WEST

Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
MAE WEST

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
MAE WEST

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
MAE WEST

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
MAE WEST

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
MAE WEST

A man in the house is worth two on the street.
MAE WEST

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
MAE WEST

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
MAE WEST

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
MAE WEST

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much eas...
MAE WEST

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST

Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
MAE WEST

'Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortun...
MAE WEST

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
MAE WEST

You're never too old to become younger.
MAE WEST

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
MAE WEST

Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.
MAE WEST

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.
MAE WEST

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
MAE WEST

It takes two to get one in trouble.
MAE WEST

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away
MAE WEST

Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.
MAE WEST

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
MAE WEST

Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
MAE WEST

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork
MAE WEST

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

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