Vivian Balakrishnan quotes
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“If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.”
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“How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?”
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“I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.—
-- Vivian Balakrishnan
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.”
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