Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
Quotes to Explore
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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Even Disney - off the record, but on the record - knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don't act like it. I'm not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.
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'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
