"Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog,……" — Jessica Hagedorn
"Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice."
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24 Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn
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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world…
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There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all…
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Everything matters. Time is precious.
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped…
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't…
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
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I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know…
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm…
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when…
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I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
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