Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

The natural result of people preferring one of their own race is that a minority race president will find it hard to get elected, and so it's something we should do something about and which we can do something about.

Lee Hsien Loong

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I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

Jill Soloway

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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

Joel Osteen

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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

John Oliver

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When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.

John Waters

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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Stanley Crouch

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Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Steve Martin

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I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Luke Bryan

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.

Jason Blum

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The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so. But when there are significant financial developments, it's incumbent on us to ask ourselves what is causing them.

Janet Yellen

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My favorite book is 'Million-Dollar Throw.' It's about football, which is one of the main things I like watching and reading about.

Bradley Steven Perry

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