Lee Hsien Loong Quotes
If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
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If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
