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John Gokongwei Quotes

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

John Gokongwei

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: chinese
Birth: August 11, 1926

Topics

Father Age Grandfather Immigrant

I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

Andrew Zimmern

Family Love Go Fair Minnesota Days

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Home Writing Country First Break

Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I'm drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they're representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we're most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character.

Amy Landecker

Character Experience Look Human Us

You need fear to create, to live.

Tracie Bennett

Fear Live You Create Need

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Jarvis Cocker

Depression Man Famous You Say Write

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

Jordan Knight

Walk Wife Free Sunglasses You Go

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Diogenes

Sun Me Stand Little Between Less

Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.

Dolores O'Riordan

Home Service School Hotel Nice Room

You know, I do have a little Pollyanna in me.

Donna McKechnie

Me You Know Little Pollyanna

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

Liev Schreiber

Women Beautiful People Famous Get

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

Ken Liu

Future Game Loser Trying Predict

I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But...' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'

Gurinder Chadha

God Media Important Seen British