Corazon Aquino Quotes
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!
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Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
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Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
