A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?
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The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.
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I love the sea.
