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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As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.
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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.
