Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity,

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Appreciate

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Compassion

• I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Lie

• I love to be surprised.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Surprised

• No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • May
  • Together

• I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • World
  • Country
  • Pleasure

• Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • More

• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Only
  • Heroism

• With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Important
  • Age
  • Health

• There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Spiritual

• If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Help
  • Mother

• Helen Thomas: What about the chief of British intelligence saying you were going to fix the facts around the politics?Dana Perino: I think that that’s been debunked.Helen Thomas: It’s never been been debunked.Dana Perino: Well, it’s been debunked by me.Helen Thomas: Good for you.Dana Perino: Good for me.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good

• It's incredibly important to my spirits and mental health that I come back to Minnesota and not be surrounded constantly with Hollywood life. Spending time in the backyard, helping out in the garden, going out to the lakes, reminds me of what's important and allows me to realign myself.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

  

  Christopher Dodd
  • Military
  • Safety

• The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • President
  • Force
  • Dirt

• Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Men
  • Real

• Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity,

  

  Lee Kuan Yew