F. Sionil Jose Quotes
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I am healthy and happy.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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My mother was always supportive.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.
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I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.
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I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
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I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
