Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
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Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.
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If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
