Miguel Syjuco Quotes

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

Miguel Syjuco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

John Cornyn

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Sometimes you have to mature.

Alvaro Morata

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I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

Judy Blume

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I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Derek Fisher

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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Cordell Hull

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In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me.

Corey Hawkins

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On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

Christy Turlington

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I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

Paul Wesley

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We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

Tim O'Brien

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Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Tippi Hedren

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I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

Rico Rodriguez

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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Nigel Rees

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