A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

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• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

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• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

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• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

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• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

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• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

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• World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

  

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• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

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• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

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• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

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• Nothing recedes like progress.

  

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

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• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
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• I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

  

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• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

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• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

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• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

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• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

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• There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

  

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• Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

  

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• No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  

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• We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

  

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• Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Family
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