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 had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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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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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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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 enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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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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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
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Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.
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I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.
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Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
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There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
