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Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Society Seek Presidency Leaders

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

Good Think Person Jesus Really

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

People Inspire Go Will Ability Tell

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Good World Early Years Pay Up

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

Challenge Perspective Moving Forward

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Funny Believe Everything Angle Just

I'm good at being funny.

Funny Good Being Funny Being

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

Intelligent Hard Years System Four

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Men Wish Violence She Fortune Her

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

Craft Surgeon Practicing Like His

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

Bozoma Saint John

Better Need Corporate Everywhere

I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.

Relationship Man Me Deep Horse Back

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

Myself Yourself Fun Laugh You Say

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