Benigno Aquino III Quotes
I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
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Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
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Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
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We are stone enemies when the bell rings.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.
