A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.
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You don’t think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell’s own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
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Sadness is so ungrateful.
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I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
