Hassanal Bolkiah Quotes

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

Hassanal Bolkiah

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• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Drink

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Meaningful

• It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Free
  • Down

• I love twins stories.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Stories
  • I Love
  • Twins

• Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Science

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Practice

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

  

  Jack Vance

• The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Daughter

• Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

  

  Mark Pagel
  • Diversity

• I would never do anything just for spite.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Spite

• That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

  

  Anita Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Education

• As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • People
  • Future
  • Quality