Josefa Iloilo Quotes
Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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No one pays me to be nice.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
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Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.
