Alex Tizon Quotes
I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!
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I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
