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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You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
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After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
