F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: December 3, 1924

Topics

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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

Jenny Han

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I really don't go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.

Michael Angarano

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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Amanda Lindhout

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I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

Steve Burns

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I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

Tommy Lee Jones

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It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Wopat

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The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Mohamed El-Erian

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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Astro Teller

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

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Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Scott Ellis

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Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

Thomas Hooker

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