A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
