Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Quotes

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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WorkPeopleCountryWhyBecomeLead

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

Jennifer Tilly

TearsFaceYouDownTellRoom

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Jean Giraudoux

DisciplineWorldManagementProblem

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.

Robbie Robertson

MusicMountainPeopleBluesNewBig

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Rod Laver

GoodGoTennisIngredientsBeing

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LifeMindMy LifeInformationDown

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Joyce Giraud

GirlTodayI AmPeopleMeYou

It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.

Deborah Tannen

TimeIdeasConflictThinkPressure

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

Clark Gregg

New YorkCollegeTheatreActingNew

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

FaithGreatThoughtGoodnessHuman

It's not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will take me all around different venues and arenas. I need to conquer opponents.

Anthony Joshua

FightMeConquerVegasGardenWill

'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody. Just at the social level. I felt pretty isolated here, I really did.

Philip Baker Hall

GoodLivePeopleGood TimesMoving

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Peabo Bryson

GreatnessSmallLineBetweenVery

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