F. Sionil Jose Quotes
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
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I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
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Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension.
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War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
