Allan Pineda Lindo (apl.de.ap) Quotes
My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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My generation were all careerists.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
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I loved being at the rink every day and training.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity, but from purely gentile stock. This was a group known as the Theodotians, named after their founder, a shoemaker, who happened also to be an amateur theologian, named Theodotus. Since they were centered in Rome, scholars sometimes refer to this group as the Roman Adoptionists.
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My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.
