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 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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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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'Wicked' is so hard-core, physically and mentally, for the whole three hours, that doing that show for two years has pretty much prepared me for anything.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
