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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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
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It is time for change, and the change is going to come in less than 48 hours.
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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.
