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'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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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.
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Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
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I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
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Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
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I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.
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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.
