Tony Tan Quotes

To ensure that Singaporeans can take advantage of opportunities, the government should continue to monitor carefully the proportion of foreign students in our education institutions to ensure that the proportion matches the present and future needs of the country, and the Singaporeans are the main beneficiaries of our education policy.

Tony Tan

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One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.

Jeremy Stoppelman

ExperienceValueChallengesMoving

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Jehane Noujaim

ChangePowerChange The WorldPeople

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

Meghan Trainor

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In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.

John O. Brennan

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I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

Amanda Foreman

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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

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Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

Dory Previn

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Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

Shawn Amos

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