Kalpana Chawla Quotes
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I'm a fast writer.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
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To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
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The way the world is right now, we need more love.
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The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
