A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
