A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.
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It's very hard when your child doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them, and you want to touch them, you want to hold them.
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I'm not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they're going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along.
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Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
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When asked if he gets advice from other musicians, quoted in **Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
