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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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
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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.
