Miguel Syjuco Quotes
When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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They kept the place up so nice. They were out there all the time taking care of things.
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All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.
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One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.
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When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.
