A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I can't do any competitive sport myself!
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.
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Providing good education to all citizens is necessary if India wishes to be counted as a developed nation.
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It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
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At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
