F. Sionil Jose Quotes
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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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.
D. W. Griffith
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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.
Harbhajan Singh
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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.
Laetitia Casta
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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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There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
Dalai Lama
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
Walter Wriston
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Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.
Amy Poehler
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This is one of those rare times when the national consensus demands us to act, ... But it does not require us to rush to judgement, to risk compounding the situation by stampeding toward what sounds like the best way to score points against each other.
Dennis Hastert
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In 303 CE, the Roman emperor Diocletian declared war on the Christian church and instigated the most massive persecution it ever endured.
In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine himself converted to become a Christian.
In 391 to 392 CE, the vehemently orthodox Christian Theodosius declared all pagan practices illegal and in effect made Christianity the state religion of Rome.
With the growth of Christianity came moments of heightened intolerance. Sometimes this intolerance erupted in ugly acts of violence, suppression, and coercion.
Christians were not, of course, the only intolerant people on the planet. They themselves had been the victims of violent coercion early in the century.
Bart Ehrman
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
