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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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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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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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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I don't have a religion, but I respect them.
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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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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.
