Miguel Syjuco Quotes
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.Miguel Syjuco
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
Victoria Pendleton -
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
M. J. Rose -
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
Tavi Gevinson -
I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
Nate Diaz -
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
Ted Dekker
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
Rand Paul -
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
Narendra Modi -
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
Nat Turner
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Patricia Highsmith -
Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
Fabrizio Moreira -
The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
Patrick Dempsey -
I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.
Maika Monroe -
For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.
Taron Egerton -
My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
W. Bruce Cameron
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My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
Gaspar Noe -
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Gary Oldman -
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
André Aciman -
Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it
Nicki Minaj -
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
Miguel Syjuco