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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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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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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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
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There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.
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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.
