A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
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Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
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Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
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I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.
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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
