A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I don't really go out at all.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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The ballerina style is here to stay. An added advantage is that the shoes blend well with Indian as well as Western attire.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
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As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults.
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It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
