Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.

Lee Kuan Yew

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• Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Well
  • Babe
  • Harley

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Little
  • Debate
  • Washington

• If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Enough
  • Gun

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Grow Up

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Free
  • Party

• All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • High
  • Moral

• You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mind
  • You
  • Going

• If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Political