Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Lee Kuan Yew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

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Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

Jens Lekman

YouBandNirvanaSomewhereGrunge

Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Stan Musial

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In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage every single person in the room. For some, the right kind of play can spell the difference between becoming part of something, and the lifelong feeling that they're not meant to take part.

Tom Chatfield

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Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could not flip in the air if she was built like me, but then Gabby Douglas couldn't throw the shot put. I was built like this because I was made to throw the shot put.

Michelle Carter

GreatMeLookSheAirIndividual

Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploiting us, it has become almost impossible for us to imagine living outside of it, and it's very difficult physically for us to live outside of it.

Derrick Jensen

LiveImpossibleProblemLivingUs

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Christopher Eccleston

WatchingYearsEverybodyTakenLot

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

Chelsea Handler

PeopleShineUsBecauseBrighter

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Christy Turlington

LivingYearsWhoDidManySeparated

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

EnoughSayWriteSomethingWord

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Peter Garrett

NatureSuccessWordsMeMoreSongs

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Paul Wellstone

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