"I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media."

-- Kathleen Battle

#Thinking Quotes

“I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.”
“When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.”
“Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.”
“In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.”

Source : John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA
“I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.”
“Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.”

Source : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press
“When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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