Benigno Aquino III Quotes
When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Birth was the death of him.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
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Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.
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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
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When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
