Filed under: Pinoy Quotes
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
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“Somebody asked me if I can still do it. I think I still can.”
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“One must be frank to be relevant.”
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“The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.”
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“I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.”
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“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
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“I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn’t have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.”
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“As our country bled . . . its leader’s wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.”
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“It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.”
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I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
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It wasn’t until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
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I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back,
I should do something for my people, but it’s not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people,
you can do it in so many other ways.
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I don’t have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It’s always the people who make things happen.
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I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.
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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.
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“I know my limitations, and I don’t like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.”
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
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National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest in its services.
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I’ve reached a point in life where it’s no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that’s good. If they don’t, that’s too bad.
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“The media’s power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.”
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As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
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“You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.”
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“worst of all, intrigues.”
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“Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.”
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“I know I will receive a lot of criticism for this but I will do what I think is right for our country,”
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October 16, 2009
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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I’m not worried. I’m in control.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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While there’s been much progress on terrorism, there’s still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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October 16, 2009
The Filipino is worth dying for.
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We only ask that freedom be returned, we ask for nothing more but we will accept nothing less.
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The great “legitimizer” of government is the ballot not the bullet.
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When you condone tyranny you share in its corruption and its lowliness.
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We should not depend on one man, we should depend on all of us. All of us is expandable in the cause for freedom and therefore I say stand up now and be a leader, and when all of us are leaders, we will expedite the cause of freedom.
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The meaning of our struggle is to be able to return the freedom. First we must return the freedom so that all segments of our community whether from the left or from the right will have the right to speak and then in that open debate in that clash of debate in the marketplace we will produce the clash between the thesis and the anti-thesis and then we will have the synthesis for the Filipino people.
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I believe that we Filipinos could not fight for our freedom, we do not deserve it, we should not depend on the Americans, we should depend on ourselves.
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What can one man do if the Filipino people love their slavery, if the Filipino people have lost their voice and would not say no to a tyrant, what can one man do. I have not army, I have no following, I have no money, I only have my indomitable spirit.
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I do not hold the key to our liberation, I do not know all the solutions to our many problem all I know is that if the situation continues in the Philippines, then blood will flow, and when blood flows, there will be no victor and there will be no vanquished because all of us will be a victim of our folly.
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October 16, 2009
“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”
October 16, 2009
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival.
October 16, 2009
“There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.”
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“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”
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October 16, 2009
“Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you’ve written it down for permanent, in due time, it’ll be proven stupid.”
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“It’s easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he’s hypnotized!”
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October 16, 2009
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
Jose Rizal
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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal
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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Jose Rizal
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The youth is the hope of our future.
Jose Rizal
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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Jose Rizal
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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal
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October 16, 2009
Everything matters. Time is precious.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
Jessica Hagedorn
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But I think there’s a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach’s growling, I’m going to dance. That’s what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It’s now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I don’t believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you’re doing with it.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I don’t know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there’s a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I’m an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
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I’m preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that’s coming up in New York City.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Life is not simple, and people can’t be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
Jessica Hagedorn
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.
Jessica Hagedorn
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There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
Jessica Hagedorn
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There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o’clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
Jessica Hagedorn
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We didn’t have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
Jessica Hagedorn
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October 16, 2009