Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Lee Kuan Yew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: September 16, 1923

Topics

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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Jim Woodring

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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Joe Cocker

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During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Jennifer Stone

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Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

Max Casella

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It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

Tom Kitt

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I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.

Matisyahu

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I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

Michelle Dean

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There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.

Michael Specter

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I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

Juan Gabriel

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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Chris Cooper

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I have never been much of a painter.

Christian Marclay

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