Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

Lee Kuan Yew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

Joan Sutherland

YourselfYouListenOutGotGet

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

MC Hammer

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I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Siri Hustvedt

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The first thing I will say about looking after your voice is get a pair of in-ear monitors because one of the most common problems singers have is trying to hear themselves on stage.

Rob Halford

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When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

Matisyahu

ReligionPeopleFeelAnswersOff

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

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I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

Dr. John

ChildrenTimeMeTalkingTryingNow

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Auberon Herbert

PowerPurposeEnoughHandsHimGet

You must look into people as well as at them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

PeopleYouLookWellMustThem

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

Sunny Deol

LifeRomanticI AmPeopleDoubtNow

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

Sharon Horgan

HabitPeopleMeThinkLongBad

Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?

Timothy Morton

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