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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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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Yay, me - I made it out of high school alive and well!
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My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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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.
