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I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. I cannot turn my back on it. It's a responsibility.
I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.
The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.
There are many beautiful and resource-rich areas all over the Philippines that are still undeveloped or under-developed. These areas offer opportunities for better master-planning and the emergence of better communities as well as cities.
Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.
The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
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We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
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OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!
I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!
As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.
The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.
I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
Orang Indonesia memang tak pernah siap, We started fighting first and thinking later
I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.
The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!
America, the plum blossoms are falling.
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.
The Filipino mind is always imagining new and exciting ideas while his/her spirit gets the vision for the ultimate victory. It's not that what they wish for is so extraordinary, but that their faith adds to its realization.
Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!
We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.
I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance - for myself and my children and my children's children - forever.
Where the hell is Australia anyway?
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.
The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.
Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
No country. is as harsh as the world.
Oh, how this world needs Filipino trailblazers! Yes, we can be that.
A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay,
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
Canada, or as i call them, America Light.
When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
The Filipino is worth dying for.
If this is the United States, mail me home.
I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.
Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
But when will Filipinas ever be free from its leaders who are wealthy and crooked, in whom we have put so much trust?
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [ ... ] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?
Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.
The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.
As our country bled ... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.
We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.
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England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson's biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It's first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.
I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.
Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
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China, you run in there and bust out some crazy Shaolin kung-fu, then I'll easily capture them when they're all tired and beat up. It will mean a fight to the death ... for you!
I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people.
I am a Filipino, not a FilipiDont-know. Resourcefullness is in our culture
Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.
I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.
I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.
In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.