A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Need distractionNeed romance and candlelightNeed random violenceNeed entertainment tonightNeed the evidenceWant the testimony ofExpert witnessesOn the brutal crimes of love.
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
