John Gokongwei Quotes
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
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I come from Paisley, the same town as David Sneddon, who won 'Fame Academy.' When he was late for his homecoming reception in the town hall, they held an impromptu talent show. I ended up singing some songs, and that's how I was discovered.
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The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.
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Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
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I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
