A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.
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There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.
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I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful.
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
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Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
