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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Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
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What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
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My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
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I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.
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I could spend all my time on a plane visiting multiple countries, and I would never visit enough.
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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.
