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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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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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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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
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The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter .
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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.
