A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.
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Repeat after me: I only invest my energy into people who invest in me. I only date people who intentionally want to get to know me. I do not chase people and try to convince them to like me.
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There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
