Kalpana Chawla Quotes
'The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.'
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov -
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
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'The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.'
