A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
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I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
