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.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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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.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I like things simple.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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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.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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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.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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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.
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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.'
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
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Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.
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The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.
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At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me.
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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.
