"We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand."

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Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

Miguel Syjuco

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“Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.”
“His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did.”

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“It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.”
“I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.”
“Every day that goes by and we don't win a ballgame, that's a missed opportunity for us to battle back.”
“The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?”
“It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.”
“I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.”

Source : "Christoph Waltz On Set Interview THE GREEN HORNET". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. July 13, 2010.

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