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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.


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JOSE ANDRES A cocktail can be made by the bartender. But the cocktail also can be made by the chef.
JOSE ANDRES My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Euro...
JOSE ANDRES We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
JOSE MARTI Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orang...
JOSE ANDRES No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less u...
JOSE RIZAL Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines...
JOSE SARAMAGO In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating whil...
JOSE ANDRES People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions ag...
JOSE CARRERAS There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
JOSE BERGAMIN The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide...
JOSE RIZAL I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. ...
JOSE RIZAL Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are be...
JOSE RIZAL I'm going to try to be a better guy, a better man, better husband.
JOSE REYES Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligen...
JOSE MOURINHO Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really;...
JOSE FERREIRA Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling rea...
JOSE RIZAL Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the s...
JOSE RIZAL If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. ...
JOSE PADILHA History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o...
JOSE RIZAL I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the ...
JOSE JAMES I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more ...
JOSE ANDRES As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipe...
JOSE ANDRES American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
JOSE ANDRES Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the wa...
JOSE CANSECO We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize i...
JOSE SERRANO Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani...
JOSE RIZAL You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
JOSE BERGAMIN Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.
JOSE CANSECO It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendu...
JOSE SARAMAGO