Benigno Aquino III Quotes
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.
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The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
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Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
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I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
