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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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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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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Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.
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To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
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My dad persevered and always took the high road and was accountable, and I respect and honor him for that.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
