F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TeacherWritingMedicineYouWealth

My dad coached 41 years, and I was always around coaches.

Stan Van Gundy

AlwaysYearsAroundCoachesCoached

When you become a Christian, all of a sudden you start to live on this rapture mentality, like tomorrow the world's going to end. You live in that frenzy. We come from the streets, so the mentality was like, 'Yo, dude, what's up? You're not going to tell me I'm not down with God. What's up!'

Sonny Sandoval

LiveGodTomorrowMeWorldStart

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

Steven Levy

HumbleLookEarlyiPhoneSpotlight

Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states.

Rosa Luxemburg

InfluenceControlFinancialPressure

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

Russell Simmons

FreedomMoneyHappyBe HappyBook

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

Little Simz

MusicPeopleFeelDoingPersonWay

Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?

Josh Gondelman

WorkHumorBookSillyYouWhy

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes

ArtMasterSlaveRuleBeing

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

Donna Langley

GoodWomenJobDoingEnoughEarly

Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.

Chris Larsen

TimeRippleEasyNowPossibleReal

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

David Souter

PeopleStartThinkThinkingBetter

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Christina Ricci

ThinkDownAnythingSuccessfulBig

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