Henry Sy (Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr.) Quotes

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

Henry Sy

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• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Mom

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Democracy
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Night
  • Islam

• Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Think
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Story

• It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Style

• When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Country
  • Family

• It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

  

  Hal David
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

  

  Ehren Kruger

• This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Pain

• Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

  

  Lynda Obst
  • Women
  • Single
  • Sick

• My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• We felt that the plan that the city eventually developed was workable. Controlling dust is a very difficult thing at best, particularly here in the Southwest during dry times of the year.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • City
  • Developed
  • Workable

• I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Long
  • Country
  • Love

• I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

  

  Susan Choi
  • Past
  • Unhappy
  • Happening

• Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Time
  • Real
  • Space

• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Real
  • Art
  • Artist

• My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Real
  • Together
  • Development