John Gokongwei Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
Larry Kramer -
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
Fran Drescher -
I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
Jack Davenport -
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Oliver Hardy -
I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
Dale Evans -
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes
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I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
Rajeev Shukla -
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
Naguib Mahfouz -
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
Taylor Negron -
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson -
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Ralph Baer
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Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
Gary Herbert -
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond de Goncourt -
The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!
Katee Sackhoff -
I had to read it out to my sister, who was witness to my early dark days, when my mother was afraid what would happen to me. But, I knew I couldn't read without choking up, so I asked Gautami to read it out for me.
Kamal Haasan -
I believe that we must always be mindful of this one thing, whatever the trials and the tests ahead. The ultimate strength of our country and our cause will lie not in powerful weapons or infinite resources or boundless wealth, but will lie in the unity of our people.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
Albert Einstein
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Our great African American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!
Donald Trump -
It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
Ziggy Marley -
When I'm on the field, I don't want to be worrying about my cleats. I want them to enhance my playing style.
Becky Sauerbrunn -
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.
John Gokongwei