Jose Rizal Quotes
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.
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Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
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Here's what I love about social media: You get to peer into people's lives that you normally wouldn't be able to.
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Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40ยข.
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody.
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Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
