Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes
It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
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Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.
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When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.
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Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
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It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
