Singapore Quotes - Page 5

• When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Track, Looks

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

  E. O. Wilson

  Australia, Environmental, Asia

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• Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

  Romain Grosjean

  Mean, Race, Heat And Humidity

  "Singapore GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. September 15, 2013.

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Eight

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• Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Fall, Leader, London

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• Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

  Najib Razak

  Orchids, Plant, Malaysia

  "Quotable quotes from Najib". New Srtaits Times, July 11, 2009.

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• The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.

  Calvin Cheng

  Cutting, Years, Media

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• There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

  Paul Kagame

  Technology, Korea, People

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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• I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

  Moshe Safdie

  Thinking, Kansas City, Essence

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• It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiration, School, People

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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