Nick Joaquín Quotes
Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
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The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
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Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.
