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.'Kalpana Chawla
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Barton Gellman -
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida -
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.
Ted Danson -
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Daniel Barber -
I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
J. A. Konrath -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg
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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.
Sam Palladio -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye -
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Nancy Pearcey -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
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.
Sam Tsui -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans
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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.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen -
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Captain Beefheart -
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.
Edmund White -
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba
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Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
Alvin Martin -
How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
Gautama Buddha -
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
Franz Boas -
My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.
Kylie Bax -
My previous education had been, in a certain sense, already a course of Benthamism. The Benthamic standard of 'the greatest happiness' was that which I had always been taught to apply.
John Stuart Mill -
'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.'
Kalpana Chawla