"I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino."

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Source : "I Will Follow My Father's Footsteps... I Am Prepared". Interview with Nelly Sindayen, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2000.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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“Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public. I will probably never be able to convice them that that isn't always the case, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I live in a less dingy world than they do.”
“I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.”
“We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.”
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.”

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.
“Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.”
“I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.”
“I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.”

Source : "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think'". Interview with Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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