Women Born In The 1960s

"Pwede naman ako tawagan ni Ate at tanongin privately kung meron silang hindi maintindihan. Pero tila hindi kalinawagan ang gusto ng mga tao sa paligid niya pero ang pagbalik ng kadiliman. (My sister could have just called me and asked privately if there was something they didn’t understand. But it seems the people around her aren’t seeking clarity — they want to bring back the darkness.)"

"Interviewer: Are you looking for God? Gianotti: No. I don’t think physics will ever be able to answer that question. Science and religion are separate disciplines, though not mutually exclusive. You can be a physicist and have faith, or you may not. It’s best for God and science to keep a healthy distance. Interviewer: But you’ve called the Higgs bison "the God particle". Gianotti: No scientist has ever dared to describe it in such terms. We owe this to the publisher of the book written by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman. He wanted to cloak the work in a literary veil that would certainly make an impact. Lederman had suggested another title, *The Damned Particle*, because it had driven us to despair; we had been searching for it for decades. It is undoubtedly a special particle, but to liken it to God is nonsense."

"Si, io credo in Dio. Non ci sono contraddizioni tra scienza e fede, l’importante è lasciare i due piani separati: essere credenti o non credenti, non è la fisica che ci darà una risposta. La scienza si basa sulla dimostrazione sperimentale e la religione si basa su principi completamente opposti, cioè sulla fede, tanto più benemerito chi crede senza aver visto."

"The first thing I tell my new clients is: “It happened to you; it's a misfortune. Just think of it as if you'd been diagnosed with cancer.” I wasn't just wondering if Andreotti would be acquitted. I was wondering if he'd have time to read all the documents, if he'd even make it alive to the Court of Cassation."

"You come out of a criminal trial with at least a nervous tic."

"Angelino is intelligent, has depth and culture, but these qualities must translate into the ability to say no even to Berlusconi."

"The watchword is disparity. [..] We must aim to have much more than men if we truly want to make up for what we’ve lacked so far. Centuries of discrimination, abuse, unfavorable laws. I consider it compensation for everything we’ve been through."

"Don’t ask yourself why this misfortune has befallen you specifically, or you’ll go mad. Get it into your head that it’s a total loss."

"In the courtroom, you often have to improvise. The better prepared you are, the better you are at improvising."

"The part of the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the statute of limitations is different. The Court of Appeals’ ruling stated, “Before 1980, there were ties to the Mafia; after that, there were not.” The Supreme Court’s ruling—which is the final instance, and which no one wants to examine—states that, regarding the period prior to 1980, there are two alternative truths: the possibility that he (Giulio Andreotti) either had ties to the Mafia or did not. There is a situation of doubt, but it makes no sense to go back and determine which of the two alternative truths applies, because the statute of limitations has expired. So it remains a matter of doubt. Quite different from the appellate ruling."

"Filippo Carobbio’s defense strategy is clear: to downplay his crime as a mere transgression, thereby avoiding a dangerous criminal conspiracy charge. This is why Carobbio accuses Conte; this is why he tries to downplay his own role in the soccer betting scandal. For the Disciplinary Commission, Carobbio is a witness of absolute credibility; Carobbio is divine, one and triune—a mythologization that struck me but is by no means accidental, because the judges used the famous “ping-pong” cross-examination technique on him."

"Plea bargaining is becoming like honey for false turncoats. To get a reduced sentence. They rejected it for Conte, and for a man like him, it’s better that way. Better a century-long ban."

"Sharing things like that—again, disinformation, fake news—should not be coming from government officials. It is concerning and erodes trust even more when disinformation and fake news come from high-ranking officials themselves. So now that they’ve done it and there’s nothing we can do about it, the least they can do is acknowledge that the video they shared is false and not authentic."

"PAO lawyers have been working day and night, even our pregnant lawyers, those with diabetes, they go to police stations, to courts to assist our indigent clients. It is unfair to generalize our PAO lawyers. Please spare PAO from politics."

"This is a journey marked by immense challenges but also by unwavering courage and the conviction that no obstacle is greater than guaranteeing vaccination and every child’s right to a healthy future."

"Everyone has to take part in this war against cholera, we’re almost there, there’s just a little bit left and if we all work together we’ll be able to get rid of cholera in Angola."

"You must have observed how the mere act of standing and sitting is difficult for me. Thankfully, people now pay much less attention to my physical handicap, as they focus more on the challenging things that I have hurdled and continue to face as leader of one of the largest provinces in the Philippines, the province of Isabela."

"We celebrate the achievements and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to completing this journey. May this honour serve as an eternal tribute to all who, yesterday and today, have dedicated their lives to the cause of public health in Angola."

"I have submitted myself to this process according to the rights that are accorded in my position. And I hope that you have taken it in all good faith that that is my intent to defend dignity and independence of the judiciary."

"It may be strange for others, but I have always been fascinated by tattooed people. In fact, attracted ako sa kanila (I am attracted to them)."

"Not everybody naman wants to celebrate ostentatiously or ‘yong sobra sobra. ‘Yong iba, mayroon lang silang budget para rito. For them, ito lang ‘yong handa ko, tapos whatever extra money, siguro pang-regalo na or whatever. (Not everybody wants to celebrate ostentatiously or excessively. Others only have a set budget for this. For them, they only have this amount allocated for food, while the rest goes to gifts or whatever.)"

"Wala akong nakikitang masama sa pagpapalagay ng tattoo (I don't see anything wrong with getting a tattoo). That's no big deal for me. It's a form of art."

"Just like Amy (a portrayed character in my television series), I have inner strength. When push comes to shove, I fight for what’s right. I may seem meek and mild, but I’m not the type who will suffer in silence."

"It seems so odd to me now, how one can be so unsettled by the improbable. When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences. That we wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for these curious twists of fate."

"I never talk enough about how painful it was. But I have admitted this in concert, only when it's live and intimate, that it was really... Maybe the second most painful time in my life, second after losing my mom."

"At the post office in the rue Pareillet I felt compelled to check the date on the screen of the stamp-vending machine, as if seeking a loophole in the host of signs that the day was repeating itself. But wherever I looked the date was the same. There was no doubt. It was the eighteenth of November for the third time."

"Often, we would simply come to the conclusion that you cannot know everything, that you have to accept some displacement in life, that you have to expect inconsistencies, and that was what we encountered: patterns and inconsistencies, two worlds trying to merge."

"There were inconsistencies in time and it was impossible to discern a pattern that made sense."

"We have grown accustomed to living with that knowledge without feeling dizzy every morning, and instead of moving around warily and tentatively, in constant amazement, we behave as if nothing has happened, take the strangeness of it all for granted and get dizzy if life shows itself as it truly is: improbable, unpredictable, remarkable."

"I had woken to the same eighteenth of November two days in a row and everything that was going on around me was happening exactly as it had the day before, it was a replica of the day I already had stored in my memory."

"But the next morning, when Thomas woke once more to his first eighteenth of November, he had forgotten everything and once more I had to tell him what had happened and how far we had got with our investigations."

"Video allows me to look beyond that framework and to show these characters as alive, proud, handsome, and strong."

"For me and my marae, and my place for my community, it’s really important that it’s inclusive and that all people feel welcome and there’s a place for everybody inside the house."

"Māori women are said not to carve, and I’ve always pushed the boundaries, so in terms of using media and photographic tools or film or video it’s my way of being able to carve. So rather than photographs I think of them as ancestral figures."

"Mahuika (the goddess of fire) sits on a stool. She’s talked about as being part of the underworld… I’ve kind of contemporised what this underworld is… My Mahuika sits on a Marcel Breuer chair...I wanted to update my version of my Māori goddess by presenting her in this century… thinking about what does she look like, what does she mean and what does she say?"

"Marakihau is one of my favourite works because it effectively replicates carving traditions. Marakihau is a word specific only to carving, it is a taniwha; water monsters that usually relate to specific locales inland or at sea. Taniwha are guardians of a place, so they can be both terrifying and good. They were said to inhabit dangerous places as a way to warn people of potential danger… My Marakihau is a composite of oceanic stuff; she has kelp dreadlocks and fishy bits. I styled this on the 1980s Soul II Soul Club Classics album cover with flying dreads, and my taniwha holds a bull’s horn like a big smoking chalice."

"You have to be determined and dedicated to what you do, but always keep your feet on the ground."

"Always be grateful for whatever you have in life."

"That’s when I realized that the saying ‘No story is worth dying for.'"

"The only important thing is that the family can be together."

"Respetuhin at mahalin mo ang sarili mo. Diba magiging open ka sa pagmamahal kasi yang ang isa sa pinakamasarap na feeling. Pero kung hindi ka masaya at taken for granted ka na lang, mahalin mo muna yung sarili mo. Maas mamahalin ka ng taong mahal mo kung nakikita din niya na mahal mo ang sarili mo. (Respect and love yourself. You will be open to love because it is one of the best feelings. But if you are not happy and you are taken for granted, love yourself first. The person you love will love you more if they see that you love yourself too.)"

"Of course you really need that too, you need a partner you can tell everything in your life."

"Fondest memories of him, at work, he really put his whole heart into his work. One hundred percent."

"Maybe I'm just busy, but other than that, there's just a little nervousness and fear. Can you believe it?"

"I’m still very much open to it. But I’m not like I used to be, when I was young, when love was everything. You realize that love can inspire you, but it can also… you can get derailed, right, if you’re not happy in love."

"And if it’s not working out, sometimes we just have to accept it and let go. Remember, it’s you who are most important."

""I have no plans to retire. I love my work. I love myself,"

"lahat may dahilan sa takbo at pagharap sa buhay, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually."

"When someone greets me, 'You're the one who greeted me earlier, aren't you?' Pinky (Amador) tells me, 'No, Mars. That's different.'"

"Why, in our time, either you were beautiful, you were an artist. Or you were bought by a prostitute, you were an artist, you were a comedian. Well, now, even if you were a complete 'shongs,' you can do it."