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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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt -
People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.
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I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
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There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
