Imelda Marcos Quotes
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket.
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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
