Miguel Syjuco quote: "I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute."

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was ...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogge...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and g...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitt...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliche...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor at...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given ...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs t...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first ...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply do...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't dec...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Love and honesty don’t mix.
MIGUEL SYJUCO

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
MIGUEL SYJUCO

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sp...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportun...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize t...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
MIGUEL SYJUCO

To be angry implies you care
MIGUEL SYJUCO

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict up...
MIGUEL SYJUCO

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
MIGUEL

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork...
MIGUEL

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspe...
MIGUEL

I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.
MIGUEL

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang v...
MIGUEL

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early ...
MIGUEL

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremend...
MIGUEL

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of...
MIGUEL

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by th...
MIGUEL

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
MIGUEL

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
MIGUEL

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is...
MIGUEL

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.
MIGUEL

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They repr...
MIGUEL

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
MIGUEL

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
LUIS MIGUEL

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the w...
MIGUEL RUIZ

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
LUIS MIGUEL

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, ...
LUIS MIGUEL

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid,...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan...
MIGUEL ZENON

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to milliseco...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
MIGUEL INDURAIN

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, y...
MIGUEL INDURAIN

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
MIGUEL INDURAIN

I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to pu...
MIGUEL ZENON

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
MIGUEL RUIZ

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the rec...
MIGUEL INDURAIN

It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I ha...
MIGUEL FERRER

I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it.
MIGUEL FERRER

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot ...
LUIS MIGUEL

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to r...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ...
LUIS MIGUEL

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship ...
MIGUEL DIAZ

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.
MIGUEL CABRERA

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writi...
MIGUEL FERRER

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a s...
MIGUEL CABRERA

Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.
MIGUEL HERNáNDEZ

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.
LUIS MIGUEL

[Olivo praised Padres hitting coach Dave Magadan, who, as a minor league instructor, had given Olivo...
MIGUEL OLIVO

We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another thro...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and...
MIGUEL FERRER

I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live ...
MIGUEL COTTO

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowled...
MIGUEL FERRER

Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,...
LUIS MIGUEL

Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public n...
LUIS MIGUEL

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical g...
LUIS MIGUEL

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
LUIS MIGUEL

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.
LUIS MIGUEL

Just spanking, yell at them . . . like any parent would.
MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ

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MIGUEL BENASAYAG

Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of wha...
MIGUEL ZENON

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.
MIGUEL RUIZ

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to g...
MIGUEL RUIZ

[He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ...
MIGUEL OLIVO

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're def...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

Of course, I know about Bo Diaz - he's from Venezuela! ... I know all about the players from Venezue...
MIGUEL PEREZ

He has a cannon. He made me look bad.
MIGUEL CAIRO

I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, bu...
MIGUEL FERRER

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
MIGUEL RUIZ

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.
MIGUEL CABRERA

The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.<...
MIGUEL RUIZ

The Caribbean Series is just a prelude of what's to come.
MIGUEL TEJADA

[Tejada said he talked less lately because of the losing.] I've been quiet the last couple of days s...
MIGUEL TEJADA

It was really special for me because [on the night of Ripken's 2,131st game], I was in my first year...
MIGUEL TEJADA

I couldn't concentrate on the game. The only thing I could think about was what had happened to him....
MIGUEL TEJADA

a long time ago.
MIGUEL TEJADA

I just found out right now,
MIGUEL TEJADA

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice ...
MIGUEL RUIZ

It was a very volatile session. The Argentine market tried to a certain degree to arbitrage and adju...
MIGUEL DANERI

The Facebook is for the Internet, as Big-Brother it is for the TV.
MIGUEL FERNANDES

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of t...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that ca...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling uni...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the dec...
MIGUEL ZENON

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without act...
MIGUEL RUIZ

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumpt...
MIGUEL RUIZ

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love wil...
MIGUEL RUIZ

Jason or Barry Bonds, you don't want them to hit a homer. As a team, you want him to be on base, and...
MIGUEL CAIRO

He's very intense, kind of the glue for the team. He's motivated every player on the court. He's def...
MIGUEL CABRITA

We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transfo...
MIGUEL SERRANO

The love talked and written about so much in novels, poetry and magazines, the love of one's neighbo...
MIGUEL SERRANO

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
MIGUEL RUIZ

Here, the hitting coach said see the ball and hit it, and swing how you want to. That's what I'm doi...
MIGUEL OLIVO

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which t...
MIGUEL SERRANO

También a mí me dan miedo las estrellas y todas esas cosas que no se abarcan o no se acaban nunca
MIGUEL DELIBES

Él no tenía autonomía ni capacidad de decisión. El poder de decisión le llega al hombre cuando ...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Algo se marchitó de repente muy dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia. Adv...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre ...
MIGUEL DELIBES

-Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traic...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Pero existen, flotando constantemente en el aire unos entes diabólicos que gozan enredando los acto...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A u...
MIGUEL DELIBES

La cosa pública es un desastre -voceaba, a la menor oportunidad, don Ramón- Cada uno mira demasiad...
MIGUEL DELIBES

El llanto era necesario para lavar la conciencia
MIGUEL DELIBES

Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya
MIGUEL DELIBES

Es expresivo y cambiante el lenguaje de las campanas; su vibración es capaz de acentos hondos y gra...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Los grandes cambios rara vez resultan oportunos y consecuentes con nuestro particular estado de áni...
MIGUEL DELIBES

Su estado de ánimo ante la Mica era un caso especial, diferente del estado de ánimo de sus amigos....
MIGUEL DELIBES

Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide ...
MIGUEL SERRANO

That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the bigges...
MIGUEL RUIZ

I think he should stay here. It's too bad, it's one of the best gas stations in Napa.
MIGUEL LOPEZ

It made me understand the things I didn't understand.
MIGUEL LOPEZ

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How c...
MIGUEL CABRERA

In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’...
MIGUEL RUIZ

I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa...
MIGUEL COTTO

This could be year to get it done. This is the first uniformed team in many years. They're competiti...
MIGUEL CABRITA

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief ...
MIGUEL RUIZ

My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promoti...
MIGUEL COTTO

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to l...
MIGUEL RUIZ

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this...
MIGUEL RUIZ

I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice perso...
MIGUEL FERRER

He just said he brought up my name because he told them everything he was taking. I'm not mad at him...
MIGUEL TEJADA

May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened
MIGUEL TORGA

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea tha...
MIGUEL ZENON

We definitely need to overcome the fact that we don't have any divers and we can't secure any points...
MIGUEL MOLINA

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're comin...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

I just try to find ways to help my team win.
MIGUEL CABRERA

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. ...
MIGUEL RUIZ

...onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade.
MIGUEL TORGA

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.
MIGUEL DELIBES

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.
MIGUEL QUEAH

Não tenhas medo, ouve:
É um poema
Um misto de oração e de feitiço...
Sem qualque...
MIGUEL TORGA

This game proved to me we have to be more prepared the next time. We should have it in November. All...
MIGUEL BATISTA

When he chose to play for Team USA it was like a cloud of smoke went up.
MIGUEL BATISTA

The fall took all the markets by surprise and especially ours, which was very bullish. It will take ...
MIGUEL DANERI

Scrimmages within the administration on Venezuela were often very, very rough.
MIGUEL DIAZ

We want to help out the campus community.
MIGUEL DREW

This is an important march for human rights. Now, it is time to wake up so they can respect us as hu...
MIGUEL MIRANDA

I've always admired his focus and how he does what it takes to get it done. I feel like I've learned...
MIGUEL MOLINA

[He was batting .151 for the Mariners, and the harder he worked, the worse he fared.] I lost all of ...
MIGUEL OLIVO

It was like a blessing. They said it wasn't going to fall anymore.
MIGUEL RAMIREZ

This is kind of hard work. It's too tough for some of the locals. But we make money doing this. We c...
MIGUEL RAMIREZ

It's a good position to be in with everyone pretty much healthy. You know, over a stretch like we're...
MIGUEL RUEDA

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and ...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a s...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas th...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned i...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Always do your best.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use t...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate where...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

There is an awful lot of negative energy out there and some of it is directed at us by other people....
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

To be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Our words, our thoughts, and our feelings all contribute to the creation of our reality. Our word is...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

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I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

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