A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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Time is a waste of money.
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In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
