Kalpana Chawla Quotes
We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'
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Silence is more musical than any song.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
