F. Sionil Jose Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Philosophy is an act of living.
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)
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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
