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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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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I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.
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He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
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I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.
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When I played, I was an English-style centre-half. Always with my heart, always with my fighting spirit.
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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.
