F. Sionil Jose Quotes
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
