Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.
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Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day -That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year - That might have sat beside me here.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
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There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
