Kalpana Chawla Quotes
Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
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The kids today, they want to run. In order to sell that program to that kids they have to buy into it. Most kids don't want to play like that.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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And I will make it felony to drink small beer.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
