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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
-
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
-
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.
-
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
-
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
-
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
-
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.
-
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!
-
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
-
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
-
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.
-
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
-
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.
-
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
-
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
-
The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our principal problem is still Israels leaders unwillingness to say in a simple manner that the Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel.
-
The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
-
One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.
-
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.
