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Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Suffering Ambition Person Personal

The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.

Certainty Destruction Threat Weapons

I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained.

Parents Career Horror Old Stage

I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.

Women Happy Mom House Three Two

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Future Imagination Suffering New Out

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Michael Mandelbaum

Sports People Control World News

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

Ideas Find Want Old Come

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I'm like, 'O.K., that was my therapy - it's out of my body now. I'm going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.'

Myself Body Now Therapy Never Write

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Help Cry Want Grandmother Right Our

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.

Music Dance People Song Thought Say

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

Music Ocean Friends Write Anything

People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.

Chrystia Freeland

Good People Rich Want Successful

I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'

Problems Hands Legs Kid Natural

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