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

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• 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

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• 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

• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Challenge

• 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

• Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

  

  Bill Walsh
  • Writing

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

  

  Lexa Doig

• The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • World
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Thinking
  • Identity
  • Passionate

• Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Work
  • Live
  • Kids

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

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

  

  Nick Joaquín
  • Identity
  • Asking
  • Filipino