Corazon Aquino Quotes
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
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All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
