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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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
