Lee Hsien Loong Quotes
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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'(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'
