Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

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• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Never
  • Story
  • Dreams

• A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Belief
  • Facts

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Looking

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.

  

  Megyn Kelly

• Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Gay

• Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Vegas

• The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Play
  • Ideas

• For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Unity