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Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space
I decided that it was worth my time to try to have some impact on that, and try to, first, help change the culture and make the culture realize that the girls are out there, that if we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys, and that we needed to be able to give girls in middle school, high school and college the same opportunities that we give to boys. So I have put in a lot of time creating programs for girls, particularly in middle school, to just keep them engaged and introduce them to role models, show them that whether they want to be a rocket scientist or a geochemist or a microbiologist, that there are women who are now actively involved in those careers and who love what they do. I think it's slowly but surely having an impact.
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Sonny Rollins
Greatest Living Jazz Soloist
Sonny Rollins: I have always been a person that has had a strong sense of right and wrong, a strong spiritual guide or guardian angel or belief maybe, I don't know how to explain it, but a conscience maybe. There was always something inside of me that was talking to me all the time. When something talks to me, like the thing with the drugs, I realized something said, "Yeah," and it finally came to me, "This is not the way to go." I just have that in me, and when I find something that I want to do, I block out everything else, and I would do it. It's the sense of right and wrong, so it doesn't matter to me that people were saying, "How can you leave the music? Because they won't accept you back if you go away. You will lose your edge," and all. This was inconsequential to me, because I had an idea that I wanted to improve my self, my musical arsenal, if you will. So I do what I want to do, and that's that. I am very strong about that, and this has held me in good stead, just listening to the inner voice. This is what I do, and I am happy about it, that I have that much determination, if you want to call it that. That's what I have done all my life, and the sabbaticals were the same.
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Sonny Rollins
Greatest Living Jazz Soloist
I realized I wasn't sounding as good as my reputation was, so I wanted to kind of get to that point where I wouldn't be ashamed to go on the bandstand, which happened to me one time on a job I was playing with Elvin Jones, at that time, was the drummer playing with me. We used to go around, had a big sign, "Sonny Rollins is coming to town," everybody was there, but I didn't sound good, and I knew I wasn't playing up to what I should be. So I said, "Okay, I am getting out of here. I am going to go and woodshed," as they say, and get myself together.
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James Rosenquist
Pop Art Master
James Rosenquist: When I started painting, and there wasn't much of a market, and there wasn't a big audience, there was a space of time -- maybe a year -- where I worked and they weren't for sale. I didn't have an accountant. I wasn't involved in any business. I mean, having a gallery is putting your work up for sale. Boom! So I didn't have that. And I think that's a strength that a person has. So if someone says, "I don't like that." I say, "Oh, you don't like that? You should see what else you wouldn't like." Because you have something over them. It's that secret life there, somewhere, of these works. And if you want to show them, you can show them something. Instead of baring your soul and showing them everything.
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