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F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Past People Literature Greater Found

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

Good Job Back Career Done Out

Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.

Solange Knowles

Responsibility World Feel You Back

There are some nights where I don't get enough sleep, or we're traveling a lot. And then I'll go do a radio show, and the DJs are usually so energetic. And they're like, 'Why aren't you excited?' I say, 'I am excited. I'm just Swedish. This is my excited. I can't get to an American excitement level.'

Sleep I Am American Enough You Go

Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.

History Never Write Air Up Anything

I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13-episode order and getting those episodes on the air, and if viewers don't come, I think most people will tell you they'd walk away. They feel they were given a fair shake, and if viewers didn't come, they didn't come.

Walk People Think Feel You Will

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.

Hate People Team Random Building

You've got to be flexible. If you want to win, you have to do whatever it takes.

Win You Want Flexible Whatever Got

People are afraid of what they don't know.

Miroslav Lajcak

People Know Afraid

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Romantic Woman Sick You Said Guy

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'

Jason Priestley

Best Smart Comedy Bathroom Try

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

More Idiots Just Shut Should Mouths

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

Technology Health Someone Way Hard

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