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 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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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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When the oldest batch of millennials really first began voting around the mid-2000s, they leaned a little toward the Democrats, looking a lot like the Gen Xers also did at that time.
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I never imagined being on television.
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All you need to do is know who you are.
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It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
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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.
