Corazon Aquino Quotes

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Fun
  • Loss
  • Teammates

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • American
  • America

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Look
  • Face

• It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Practice

• I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

  

  Princess Diana
  • People
  • Understanding

• Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, As the punt’s rope chops round.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Home
  • Cool
  • Summer

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Life
  • Power

• I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • People
  • Power