Alex Tizon Quotes

In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

Alex Tizon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: October 30, 1959 - March 23, 2017

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Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.

Jimmy Iovine

HeartDayYouEvery DayJust Because

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

Jesmyn Ward

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I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.

Jeremy Scott

LoveHappyBackFirstHerAgain

I grew up singing in a church choir.

John Grant

SingingChurchChoirUpGrew

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Andrea Riseborough

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To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Robert Shapiro

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'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

MoonSellingDoneReturningWay

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Kerr

MorningHealthFeelingHealthyUp

You have to keep trying to get better.

Jon Gruden

BetterTryingYouKeepGet

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brewster Kahle

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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

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'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

Antony Johnston

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