Kalpana Chawla Quotes

There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

Kalpana Chawla

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• I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Me
  • Protect

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Years
  • Old

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Night

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

  

  Debra Messing
  • Opinion
  • Teacher

• There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

  

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Creativity
  • Answer
  • Destructiveness

• The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Peace
  • Failure

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Philosophy

• One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • School
  • Why
  • Feeling

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Worth It