A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.
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I don't expect my team to win all the games, but we did our best to lose this one.
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When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.
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Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
