F. Sionil Jose Quotes
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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Women drive box office.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
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Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.
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Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.
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Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
