Sally Ride Quotes

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• I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

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  Bad Ass, Order, Goal

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  The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

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  Giving, Advice, Trying

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

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  Girl, Boys, Want

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• Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

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  People, Secret, Able

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  All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

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  Travel, Adventure, History

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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• I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

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  Girl, Jobs, Bad Ass

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  The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

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  Stars, Looks, Bigger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.

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  Views, Appreciate, Perspective

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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  It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

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  Couple, Women, Years

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

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  Lying, Kids, Space

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• There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

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  Girl, Encouragement, Opportunity

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• I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

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  Thinking, Bad Ass, Important

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• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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  Fun, Curiosity, Natural

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• If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

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  Movement, Today, Ifs

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• We need to make science cool again.

  Sally Ride

  Needs

  "The Commencement Address Sally Ride Never Gave" by Lynn Sherr, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

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• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

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  Space, Waiting, Sitting

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

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  Girl, Teacher, Encouragement

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• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

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  Talking, People, Should

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• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

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  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

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  Distance, Bad Ass, Used

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• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

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  Bad Ass, Space, People

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• It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Real

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!

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  Girl, Stars, Ocean

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• I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.

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  Risk, Has Beens, Bits

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

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  School, Math, College

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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