Ferdinand Marcos Quotes
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
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Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.
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We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
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There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
