Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dream
  • Storm
  • Snow

• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writer
  • Sure

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Innocent

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Diversity

• It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Bigs
  • Members
  • Rocks

• We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
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