A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I definitely had an AOL account when I was 14, but I don't remember what my screen name was.
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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
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I suppose I would be a logical choice to play the Doctor just because Giles, my character in Buffy, has the same light and dark sides and quirkiness as Doctor Who.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
