Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I'm an actor.
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
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I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
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At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
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I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
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I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.
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The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
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There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
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During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.
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I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
