Miguel Syjuco Quotes

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.

Miguel Syjuco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: November 17, 1976

Topics

HistoryExperiencePowerfulFirst

I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever.

Jennifer Hyman

SongRememberYouForeverSomething

My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.

Anat Cohen

MusicGreatDayTrainingSchoolNew

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

Megan Mullally

CoffeeBestEasyQuitUpUsed

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.

Robert Shea

CareAncestorsYearsUpBeingHunt

I was a skinny 17-year-old.

Roger Rees

Skinny

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

Martti Ahtisaari

MotherCityFinlandSettlingMoved

I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

Mirko Cro Cop

FightFreeYearUpSixMost

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

LegalLaws

Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.

Loretta Lynch

FoodResponsibilityCleanlinessServe

I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.

Jon Jones

MyselfManBetterReachPlaceNever

The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

Allison Janney

PeopleMomThinkWhyHappenJoke

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

Peter Tosh

ChildrenMeSongFindGoSay

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