"I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me."

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Source : "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". Interview with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

Rod Blagojevich

#Believe Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try.”
“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it â€” they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”
“In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.”
“The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.”
“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”
“Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.”
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Source : "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.
“Itâ€™s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.”

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