Nonito Donaire Quotes
I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
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I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
