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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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.
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There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
