Hassanal Bolkiah Quotes
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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A healthy heart is the key to longevity.
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In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
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I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
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A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
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Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
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One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.
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My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
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I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
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I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.
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I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
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These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team.
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He went down and got it. It wasn't the worst pitch in the world. Some guys foul it back, some guys hit it out. Heck, if it's not for me, we win three games.
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The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
