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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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.
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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
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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.
