Lee Myung-bak Quotes

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

Lee Myung-bak

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• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Musicians

• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • May
  • She
  • Church

• Let's learn to consume the least amount of energy possible.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Energy

• If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Music
  • College
  • Study

• It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • War
  • Growing
  • Support

• When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Trying
  • War
  • Economy