Hassanal Bolkiah Quotes

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: July 15, 1946

Topics

SkillsNeedCompetitiveStayForeign

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

MorningTreeQualityRootsWind

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

LifeLiveBookIsolationYouBeyond

As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

Michael Hastings

WorldFindStrikeTerrorismAfrica

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Jean Reno

FriendSchoolTheatreDoingDrama

We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.

John Skipper

CompetitionBetterUsLikeESPN

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Amity Gaige

GoodPeopleWritingTryingIntention

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

St. Vincent

ParentsPeopleThinkMusiciansWant

My name is not really a common one, but people always tend to mix it up, which is quite embarrassing! As there have been incidents where I would be all ready to go on stage for my performance, and the host would say, 'Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Mr Rithik.' And, I would have to remind them that it isn't Rithik but Rithvik!

Rithvik Dhanjani

WelcomePeoplePerformanceNameGo

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Roy H. Williams

MatterMeaninglessStatementHow

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

DailyLittle GirlsLittleDependent

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Johnny Kidd

FutureHappyLooksNowGroupYes

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Don Young

ColdIceNothingMindsEverything

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