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

• Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Business
  • Everything
  • Image

• 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

• Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Want
  • Taken

• 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

• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Feelings

• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Study
  • Color
  • Matter

• I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

  

  William Shatner
  • People
  • Book
  • Envy

• My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Game
  • Strong

• 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