Nguyen Tan Dung Quotes

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

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• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Know
  • Never
  • Rules

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Players

• I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Waves

• Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • Walking

• Fact: death too is in the egg. Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sweet
  • Summer

• I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Excellence

• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Children

• It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Absurd

• Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Done

• Attention. That's all girls want.

  

  Diplo
  • Attention

• If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

  

  Kurt Russell

• I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• It feels good to be strong.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Good
  • Strong

• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Revenge

• The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • World
  • Galaxy
  • Planes

• As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Words
  • Forever
  • Speechless

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She

• Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

  

  Nguyen Tan Dung