John Gokongwei Quotes

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

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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
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• We never see ourselves as others see us.

  

  Oliver Hardy
  • Never
  • See
  • Others

• 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
  • Speak
  • Start
  • Blessings

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• I have always believed that what goes around comes around.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Always
  • Around
  • Goes

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Time
  • Country
  • Problems

• 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
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• 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
  • Blessed
  • Enemies
  • Brilliant

• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Born
  • Situation
  • Being

• Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Bad
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Never
  • Sad
  • Princess

• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Risk
  • Insurance

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Dark

• Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Pompous
  • Mr. Collins
  • Narrow-minded

• When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity

  

  Mark Victor Hansen
  • Purpose
  • Clear
  • Negativity

• I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People

• The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Die

• I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

  

  John Gokongwei