Tablo
- Lost One (Heavily Abridged)
My child, when you follow, I leave my footsteps here for you. Steer clear of them. Now that I've run to the very end, I see that there's nothing I was looking for. I ran down this path for my family, only to have it take my father's life. Even if everyone welcomes you, they will abandon you. Even when they roll out the red carpet for you, don't forget it has turned red from your blood and sweat. I lost one too many things. Whatever you wish to become, I'll applaud you. Just don't end up like me.
Lee Kuan Yew
China could draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States could draw on the world's seven billion people and recombine them in a diverse culture that exudes creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.
Josip Broz Tito
- To Joseph Stalin
Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.
Josip Broz Tito
I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.
Lee Kuan Yew
- 1965 Response to CIA denial of $3.3 million bribe during 1960
If the Americans go on denying, I will have to disclose further details, which may sound like James Bond and Goldfinger, only not as good, but putrid and grotesque enough. If they continue denying it, I will play some of these tapes on Singapore radio. The Americans should know the character of the men they are dealing with in Singapore and not get themselves further dragged into calumny. You should not buy and sell this government.
Lee Kuan Yew
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement really should have their heads examined.
Lee Kuan Yew
I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
Lee Kuan Yew
We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins.
Lee Kuan Yew
When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything.
Lee Hsien Loong
We are looking for a path which no country has yet found. If we don't get to the next level then we will have malaise and the angst, and even disillusionment which you see in many developed countries.
Lee Hsien Loong
What will the next 50 years be like? It depends on you. Go for it! Make the most of what you have. Stretch your limits; help one another; work with your fellow citizens as one Singapore team. Show the world what Singapore can be.
Dannreuther
- 600 Years (Beat the Devil)
I know what the gardener said. He said all you had to do was get some good grass and then roll it every day for six hundred years or some such howling nonsense. I heard that story before you were born. English people tell it when they feel poor.
Dr. House
Life is pain. I wake up every morning, I'm in pain. I go to work in pain. You know how many times I wanted to just give up? How many times I thought about ending it?
Teller
I might qualify as the most hardened atheist, and I have not the slightest need to believe in stuff that is not in some way verifiable. I believe in art, mind you. I don't believe that art is supernatural. I think that beauty and humour are wonderful things, and quite important to us.
Penn Jillette
The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine.
Charles Ross (Vlog Creations)
- Forgiveness (Abridged)
Something really important that's not taught in school - and it should be as a life skill - is forgiveness. The reason being for your sake. When you're upset or offended at somebody and you can't resolve the issue, choosing forgiveness helps you let go of the pain. There's many reasons not to forgive them, because if we do it makes what they did to us okay somehow. To choose to forgive will remove the anger, and the pain would ease. It starts the moment you say "I forgive them."
Tablo
Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color. Just because you're breathing doesn't mean you're alive.
Tablo
I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.
Tablo
I always make sure there's an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.
Richard Hammond
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
