Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
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I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.
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My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
