F. Sionil Jose Quotes

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You have to stay one level above everyone else.

Jim Otto

YouEveryoneLevelAboveStayElse

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Jerry Della Femina

GoodBusinessGreatAdvertisingYou

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Joel Coen

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Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

Steven Burd

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I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

Sofia Vergara

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There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

Rose McIver

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Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.

Monica Potter

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I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Dean Smith

ThinkingSayMeanAlways

I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.

Christian Louboutin

LiveSomeoneNeverJustDidCould

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

Brian O'Driscoll

LifeGoodHomeLiveGreatPeople

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

Lulu

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