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“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
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“Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’”
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“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”
Source : "More Chips For Tax Reform". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.
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“A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.”
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“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”
Source : Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing
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“10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?”
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“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”