A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
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I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
