Benigno Aquino III Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
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We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...
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I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
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I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
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Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
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Dude, do anything you want.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.
