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.
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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.
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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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Sempre che l'inimico è più possente,Più chi perde accettabile ha la scusa.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.
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In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.
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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.
