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

• 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

• People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • People

• The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.

  

  John Searle
  • English
  • Door

• Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.

  

  David Novak
  • People
  • World
  • God

• What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking - you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....

  

  David Duke
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Needs

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

  

  Nick Joaquín
  • Identity
  • Asking
  • Filipino