Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I think you're working and learning until you die.
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People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.
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I am going to keep on singing. I have no intention of retiring. Actually, I always wonder whether people know my songs in the different countries I visit. I feel nervous over whether they will sing along with me or not.
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Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
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If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.
