Benigno Aquino III Quotes
One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
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If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.
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Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
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One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
