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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If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
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I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.
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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.
