F. Sionil Jose Quotes
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.F. Sionil Jose
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The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul -
Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
Washed Out -
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
Vicki Lawrence -
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
Daniel Espinosa -
It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
Gabrielle Union
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren -
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo -
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
Larry David -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
Victor Ponta -
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
Orlando Bloom -
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
Madchen Amick -
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken -
As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
Sam Kean
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
Danger Mouse -
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
Jack Reed -
We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".
Andrew Breitbart -
And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
Warsan Shire -
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
F. Sionil Jose