Nick Joaquín Quotes

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

Nick Joaquín

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• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Change

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Strong
  • Party

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Family
  • Success
  • Like

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

  

  Dora Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

  

  Anastasia Griffith

• When my kids are happy, I am happy.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Up
  • World
  • Today

• The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

  

  Lexa Doig

• Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • People
  • Happy
  • Society

• Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Today

• After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

  

  Doris Duke

• Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Style

• I think I'm someone you would really break down easily, so I have to work on that.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Work

• I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.

  

  Nicole Trunfio
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Glamour

• The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Identity

• I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

  

  Nick Joaquín
  • Identity
  • Asking
  • Filipino