Alex Tizon quote: "Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all."

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War ...
ALEX TIZON

When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more...
ALEX TIZON

I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that we...
ALEX TIZON

I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to...
ALEX TIZON

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.
ALEX TIZON

I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more...
ALEX TIZON

It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emp...
ALEX TIZON

Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu ...
ALEX TIZON

American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as...
ALEX TIZON

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even ...
ALEX TIZON

In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were inv...
ALEX TIZON

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw ...
ALEX TIZON

We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our ...
ALEX TIZON

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
ALEX TIZON

The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear b...
ALEX TIZON

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always...
ALEX TIZON

One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellect...
ALEX TIZON

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-f...
ALEX TIZON

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s...
ROBERT TIZON

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to tru...
ROBERT TIZON

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a hear...
ROBERT TIZON

How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?
ROBERT TIZON

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
ALEX GREY

Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
ALEX MORGAN

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in ...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I like playing the villain.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case ...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I e...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romantic...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy tha...
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture...
ALEX BERENSON

When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the ...
ALEX LOWE

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, e...
ALEX KAPRANOS

If it's not messy and it doesn't drip over the sides, it's not a holiday hot chocolate -...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fa...
ALEX BERENSON

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcas...
ALEX BERENSON

I've been humbled by the reception I've received everywhere.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoh...
ALEX FERGUSON

The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade di...
ALEX BERENSON

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,...
ALEX BERENSON

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, wor...
ALEX BERENSON

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a...
ALEX STEFFEN

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and...
ALEX STEFFEN

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you ...
ALEX EBERT

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the...
ALEX CAMPBELL

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
ALEX TURNER

I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God ha...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patroniz...
ALEX KINGSTON

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to de...
ALEX FERGUSON

It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should ...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having...
ALEX KAPRANOS

I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my b...
ALEX PETTYFER

I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old an...
ALEX MORGAN

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began...
ALEX SPANOS

John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as cha...
ALEX BERENSON

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
ALEX LEVIN

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
ALEX BERENSON

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms o...
ALEX STEFFEN

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues ...
ALEX NOBLE

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after...
ALEX MORRITT

I had never thought about playing volleyball until my freshman year, ... But Small stopped me in the...
ALEX NOBLE

It started clicking then,
ALEX NOBLE

Intimidation? Oh, gosh, I cried every day, ... I almost walked out the first day. One girl said I sh...
ALEX NOBLE

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and g...
ALEX NOBLE

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ...
ALEX NOBLE

If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now,
ALEX SANDERSON

One step from the scrapheap, really.
ALEX SANDERSON

I was thinking about not buying things, but then I needed to buy stuff.
ALEX SANCHEZ

We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want ...
ALEX SANCHEZ

Last year everywhere we played people tried to mess with me. I just tried to take it like a game. I ...
ALEX SANCHEZ

We wanted to do a jungle theme, but only the girls were into it.
ALEX SANCHEZ

I rode him for a bit, then I tried to let him up to get a takedown, but he acted like he didn't want...
ALEX SANCHEZ

He was tough. There wasn't very much I could work on. After the first takedown, I realized I needed ...
ALEX SANCHEZ

He wanted to be here. He's dedicated to the team. I know he'll be at the rest of the meets. Wrestlin...
ALEX SANCHEZ

We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We're seeing that around South Florida, Central...
ALEX SANCHEZ

He's probably one of the biggest factors that made me what I am. I wish he was out here with me winn...
ALEX SANCHEZ

My shots were on. I was hitting my double legs. Working every day over the summer is what put me her...
ALEX SANCHEZ

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.
ALEX SALMOND

Our first democratic Parliament in history -- we are going to take that opportunity to move Scotland...
ALEX SALMOND

We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.
ALEX SALMOND

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,
ALEX SALMOND

Nations are nations if they feel themselves to be a nation. And Scotland overwhelmingly feels itself...
ALEX SALMOND

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism,
ALEX SALMOND

On the streets of Livingston people have been asking why the chancellor has failed to do his part to...
ALEX SALMOND

This winning habit will stand the party in good stead as we build towards winning the 20 first-past-...
ALEX SALMOND

Their whole by-election plan is in tatters, which is no surprise because everything Mr McConnell put...
ALEX SALMOND

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nati...
ALEX SALMOND

If you go down this path, and we take the steps we're taking now, it's going to move our chances for...
ALEX SAITTA

The way Greenville is beating our pants off is not with their 2 and 3 percent higher salaries. They ...
ALEX SAITTA

The last $17 million the board spent on renovations was in the Easley area, and before that the boar...
ALEX SAITTA

Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living...
ALEX SAITTA

That isn't happening now. For example, I asked one high school principal if he thought students who ...
ALEX SAITTA

We still have a school district to run. Building needs remain the top priority, and we must not let ...
ALEX SAITTA

A contract doesn't mean you're contractually obligating your friends to do certain things. What you'...
ALEX SAAVEDRA

Waiting. I loved the record.
ALEX SAAVEDRA

It was just awful. It was the bottom of my life. Thank God I didn't do any drugs or drink at the tim...
ALEX SAAVEDRA

If you love music, don't start a label. Start a band. If you love business and music, start a label.
ALEX SAAVEDRA

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don...
ALEX ROLAND

NASA is plodding along doing what it's been doing for decades, ... Astronauts have been flying up th...
ALEX ROLAND

in a budget crisis of its own making.
ALEX ROLAND

There is no question in my mind that it would be best policy to say forget it,
ALEX ROLAND

We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget th...
ALEX ROLAND

It's probably harmless, ... but it trivializes the space program. It seems as if they've got nothing...
ALEX ROLAND

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.
ALEX ROLAND

I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen), ... Alas, he was already discovered when I first m...
ALEX ROLAND

But there were a lot of misplaced priorities. I didn't hear any new ideas about the economy beyond t...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

Today it did everything. It went up, it went down, it went left, it went right. He had us talking to...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

You usually don't see this type of celebration when the Yankees win a division,
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

When they give you lemons, you need to make lemonade. When they give you oranges, you need to make o...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

After thoughtful deliberations with my family, I am announcing my decision to withdraw from the Worl...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

I couldn't be more proud of guys like Derek Jeter, Sheffield, Matsui. They absolutely played incredi...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

I certainly would trade his World Series championship for this MVP trophy,
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

It took me a little while to realize that Joe knows everything that's going on around here. It might...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

I don't want to talk about it, so many good things happened tonight. It feels like I got stung prett...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ

I don't want to say that I'm patient and I don't want to say that I'm in a hurry. I'm in between tha...
ALEX RIOS

I really liked how I could finish in half the time. And the expansion will make it even better for s...
ALEX RIOS

I think we are going to do good. We are not a team that quits.
ALEX RIOS

I was just looking to get something to get Koskie over in scoring position since he would be the lea...
ALEX RIOS

I haven't been feeling very comfortable at the plate lately. I'm making little adjustments to get to...
ALEX RIOS

Nobody wants to have that kind of reputation. But I deserved it (to be reprimanded), Some of the pla...
ALEX RIOS

I've got to understand that I'm going to split time with him now. Anytime I have a chance to play, I...
ALEX RIOS

I don't want to put that as an excuse. I didn't run and I've got to accept what I did.
ALEX RIOS

I know I should've run that ball out. It's not going to happen anymore.
ALEX RIOS

Since this is the first year we've opened up March Madness on Demand for free, we're definitely goin...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

This product could very well be absolutely packed on game days, especially during the first couple o...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

We have a product that can handle an infinite number of scoring variations. The great thing about th...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

It used to be that if you had a pool, you ran off 1,000 copies of the bracket at the copy machine an...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

Some people saw significant waits, especially early in the day. In the beginning, there were more th...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

Our prime time is the inverse of prime time on TV. Our biggest time will be this Thursday and Friday...
ALEX RIETHMILLER

The 'Fade to Black' concert was the best concert ever. You truly had to be there to experience it. A...
ALEX REZAEV

If you live in New York City, you will never be bored for a second in your life.
ALEX REZAEV

The job I want to get after school requires good grades and lots of work. Time management is by far ...
ALEX REZAEV

If I was to meet him, I would talk business first, get some business advice and then talk some music...
ALEX REZAEV

Most of the players are Alex McLeish signings and we want to do well for him, as well as ourselves,
ALEX RAE

He was the guy who gave us our chance and we want to do well for him. I'm sure we can turn things ar...
ALEX RAE

It will be nice to play against my old club again. I look back fondly at my time there, that club wa...
ALEX RAE

Everyone at the club was disappointed with the Hibs defeat, so it is crucial we bounce back against ...
ALEX RAE

Most of the boys are walking around in a daze in there. We thought we had done enough to win but the...
ALEX RAE

There's no doubt his association with O'Neill helped him tremendously. He (O'Neill) really helped hi...
ALEX PROCEL

That was a bad scene, but Luis is in good spirits now, and it's not easy to be that way when you're ...
ALEX PROCEL

It's going to be a slow recovery process. The first time he got out of bed it took him five minutes ...
ALEX PROCEL

Yesterday, Luis was complaining of some pain because of bruising and just general soreness, but he s...
ALEX PROCEL

He took him through the rail, so it wasn't a good scene.
ALEX PROCEL

It all came down to the day when I was lifted up. I'll never forget those three days.
ALEX PRADO

The State of the Student Address was postponed because [Garay] was on the loose and we were advised ...
ALEX PRADO

We're just crossing our fingers, saying our prayers.
ALEX PRADO

Having come from Virginia, my home doctor was five states away.
ALEX PRADO

He's a nice horse and he's great to work with. This race was our payoff for our work.
ALEX PRADO

It potentially makes a huge difference with regards to the city's financial ability to take on these...
ALEX PIETSCH

They (the store) continue to innovate and to give reasons to think of Ikea and Renton as a destinati...
ALEX PIETSCH

It's not like this is going to happen in the middle of the night.
ALEX PIETSCH

This is the best tool that is out there that gives us hope for closing the gaps that we have for our...
ALEX PIETSCH

Yeah, I guess you could say that. We broke a lot of stuff.
ALEX PHILLIPS

I think it will be pretty impressive, especially after running on those cinders all the time and com...
ALEX PHILLIPS

It was a good experience. I'm glad I did it.
ALEX PHILLIPS

We were just hanging out together like we used to do.
ALEX PHILLIPS

I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it.
ALEX PEREZ

Just getting nominated is insane. We'll find out if we're selected in April. That will be two weeks ...
ALEX PEREZ

I think it really helped to open their eyes and minds to the profession. It definitely made everythi...
ALEX PEREZ

The kids had a blast. Colin was able to give them insight about professional acting, and the student...
ALEX PEREZ

I made a few phone calls to friends, and they hooked me up. I used my professional contacts.
ALEX PEREZ

You're your own boss. No one tells you anything.
ALEX PEREZ

You don't have time to eat lunch, you work 12 hours and then the first days you just try to keep bus...
ALEX PEREZ

It's not your typical job. It pays well if you do the job right and build a client base.
ALEX PEREZ

We will hit the gun industry where it hurts -- in its wallet,
ALEX PENELAS

express those emotions with violence, they must not express them with civil disorder, or any fashion...
ALEX PENELAS

were a very clear manifestation of 41 years of persecution, 41 years of having loved ones perishing ...
ALEX PENELAS

If anyone goes beyond the boundaries of peaceful protest and in any way causes disorder in this comm...
ALEX PENELAS

to assist the federal government in any way, shape or form to inappropriately repatriate Elian Gonza...
ALEX PENELAS

Across the globe, Andrew Cunanan is ... a marked man. The world is on notice,
ALEX PENELAS

An impenetrable type of industry can in fact be penetrated, if you have good legal arguments. I thin...
ALEX PENELAS

We all want to make it very clear this afternoon that if the Justice Department's handling of this m...
ALEX PENELAS

We all believe that the particular actions of the Coast Guard at that time were unnecessary and unwa...
ALEX PENELAS

However, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that our strategy remains unchanged - to cr...
ALEX PARSONS

I never thought it would work (this way) with me. I just wanted the opportunity to play. This heavil...
ALEX PARSONS

After the Nike camp, I got offered by Kentucky and then Utah and Arizona came by (during spring prac...
ALEX PARSONS

That Nike camp, that's where everybody looks at you. They sell you to everybody out there. You do al...
ALEX PARSONS

I could tell he was following me around. But it was definitely fun.
ALEX PARSONS

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.
ALEX PADILLA

He was a man of the people, a true populist.
ALEX PADILLA

But we haven't come up with any measures to deal with the matter. The wage hike is impractical becau...
ALEX PADILLA

We are aware that how critical the problem is,
ALEX PADILLA

We want great schools for our kids, safe neighborhoods and the very best in emergency services, ... ...
ALEX PADILLA

The governor personally came here, assigned a dozen staff members to work the hall like it was a pol...
ALEX PADILLA

If I was the governor, I wouldn't be jumping up and down for joy here,
ALEX PADILLA

[But Alex Padilla, incoming league president and prominent Los Angeles Democrat, said] the governor ...
ALEX PADILLA

We will welcome any manufacturer of the vaccine to manufacture here,
ALEX PADILLA

This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. l...
ALEX PADILLA

I don't look at history. I enjoy my hockey career here in Washington. ... I'm glad I score lots of g...
ALEX OVECHKIN

There was two second left in game. I don't know why he do it. He was disappointed we beat Toronto, I...
ALEX OVECHKIN

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

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