Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

Lee Kuan Yew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Mia Wasikowska

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But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

Sigmar Gabriel

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I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Jones

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I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Ritchie Blackmore

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I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always for social media - to talk to my bros and my fans and my friends.

Ross Lynch

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Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Mike Ditka

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I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

Miuccia Prada

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For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

Jonathan Anderson

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But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more.

Johnny Damon

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My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and then I'll go and lie down on the couch with a book and my two dachshunds.

Diana Gabaldon

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I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Chris Hadfield

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