Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

Lee Kuan Yew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MotherWifeBackSayNieceShe

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

Joel Edgerton

VanityDownCulturesImageOwnSome

Water's never clumsy.

Matthew McConaughey

WaterNeverClumsy

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

AgeNew YorkParentsMeCoolDrive

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

BelieveNowChristmasSpiritFirst

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

FireBackEnemyGoSaidGrandfather

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

Ronnie Coleman

ProblemsBackCareerWholeHad

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

Molly Shannon

GoodFatherGreatJobFunSister

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

Miranda Lambert

MeTryingCareerFortunateSomething

I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

Jason Pierre-Paul

GameEndBallPlayingKeepGoing

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Joseph Heller

MyselfServiceMilitaryPrettyHad

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Diablo Cody

HistoryIgnoreChannelNormally

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

Colin Firth

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