Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: June 15, 1945 - September 29, 2016

Topics

LifeLiveLive LifeBestMeDesire

I always knew I was going to be a mommy, and because I came from a family of three kids, I always assumed I would have three!

Jessie James Decker

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We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

Andrew Young

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Jeb Bush

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Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

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It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Robert Baden-Powell

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It's nice to engage with the people that support you so much.

Rozonda Thomas

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I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

Matt Bellamy

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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Mira Nair

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I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way.

Lizzo

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If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Jayson Blair

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The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

David Wilkerson

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