F. Sionil José Quotes
Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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The world needs some help.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I don't do negative things.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
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There really isn't a formula for success.
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A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
