A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.
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I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
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My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
