Top 410 Quotes & Sayings by Singaporean Authors - Page 5

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

I've never followed my party... I'm no yes-man, I've never been a yes-man.

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

If the PAP has a two-third majority, they will have the power to change important laws like the Constitution at will, whenever they wish.

If you don't have that Singapore core, you can top up the numbers, but you are no longer Singapore. It doesn't feel Singapore - it isn't Singapore - and we can issue everybody red passports, but where is the continuity?

Indeed, many Singaporeans hope the opposition can unite and coordinate their efforts so as to become a more relevant political force.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.

The president actually is there to complement the government in power. If they have done something that is not proper, it is the duty of the president to... discuss and to come to some common ground.

Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces.

America excels not just through sheer individual talent but by working together with others.

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.

I think if you look at the Singapore projects, we wanted to do industrial parks. They have taken very long to clear the issues of land, and these become politicised, and you can't settle it, and eventually the project languishes and nothing happens.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

If you asked a Singaporean, on the one hand they'll say, 'Let us do our own things.' On the other hand, when an issue comes out, they'll ask, 'What is the government doing about it?'

I'm one of the girls that you would love to have in your group of friends.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

If those people who come in to join the PSP, hoping to extract something from the party for themselves, I think even if they leave, I will not feel sorry.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

We are looking for ways where you can have a sandbox, where you have a restricted environment within which people can try new things, and I can try new rules. And depending on what works, then I open up the sandbox, and it becomes the new rule for the whole system.

As borders take time to reopen, we will make sure the Government spends our reserves to nurture strong local businesses. To grow local supply chains. And to encourage innovation. This is important because local businesses will be Singapore's growth catalyst in our post-COVID economy.

I still feel very uncomfortable with the term 'celebrity' because I don't see myself as one.

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

We are open to the world; the world is at our doorstep. It washes in, not just through the windows, but we are immersed in it completely - through the Internet, through the media, through people traveling, coming here, as well as Singaporeans going abroad.

So long as I'm relevant, and so long as my health permits and people still want me, I will continue.

China has been developing, growing in economic strength and its influence in the region. That will continue.

When it comes to Singapore's sovereignty, there can be no doubt where the WP has stood and will continue to stand. We stand with Singapore.

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.

What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.

I don't have farmers I can convert into factory workers.

I hope that soon after the next election, amongst them they will have decided, settled, and the leader will be ready to take over from me.

Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian businesses to access the world.

If I become president, I want to make sure that we shouldn't live in fear. We should all be one people. We should all enjoy differences of opinion without getting upset.

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

A truly united Singapore means having a Parliament that reflects all views, and not just the PAP view or the group-think of a single political party.

We've lived with the PAP all our lives, and we know how powerful they are.

As a young actor, there's a lot of hubris. You come in with guns blazing, all kinds of ideas as to how you want to play a role, and you endeavour to convince people of your interpretation or your point of view.

To ensure that Singaporeans can take advantage of opportunities, the government should continue to monitor carefully the proportion of foreign students in our education institutions to ensure that the proportion matches the present and future needs of the country, and the Singaporeans are the main beneficiaries of our education policy.

As long as our people, youth, businesses and individuals engage the issues of the day civilly in our democracy, and treat their fellow Singaporeans and foreigners within our midst with dignity and empathy, and endeavor for a more caring society, the best years of Singapore, a Singapore for all, are ahead of us.

Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.

We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost.

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

The emerging economies, many of them are concerned. They didn't want the money to slosh in. They are afraid when the money sloshes out, but the tapering has to take place, and we have to be able to manage it.

Let me make the Workers' Party's position clear: When we deal with public discourse, I think it's very helpful, in fact it's critical, that we all deal with objective information.

I've learned that no matter what I do, people are going to have their opinions.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

I think if you want to engage in social media, you must take the good with the bad.

We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't have to choose sides.

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

I am a hypebeast person.