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In trying to be politically correct, they were politically wrong. People who were trying to be politically correct judged Herve because of how he looked. Herve was not Filipino, he had a form of dwarfism that gave him a certain outward appearance. Herve Villechaize was French. – Peter Dinklage	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Until you sit down with the brother of the man who you’re playing, who is not Filipino, who’s French, and have a laugh about how crazy the world is in assuming because of how someone looks, they judge of what they must be, and here we are making a movie all about judging how you look, but people who thought they were doing the right thing were doing the exact same thing. We had a few laughs about that. – Peter Dinklage	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They love basketball, it’s super inspirational for the youth and anybody with Filipino blood. It’s an amazing experience. – Jordan Clarkson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Filipino American seamen in Louisiana were willing to live out in the marsh far away, so The Filipino seamen in Louisiana could make a decent living, but it was a risk when the storms came through every 10 years or so, and then, the whole place was destroyed and they rebuilt, and that's the story of climate migration, where after a while, some of them had enough of the storms. – Randy Gonzales	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All throughout the 1800s, there are little pockets of Filipino sailors all over the world, and in a couple cases, particularly New Orleans, they form these kind of fishing settlements outside of outside of the port cities, for these Filipinos who ended up at St. Malo, part of what they wanted to do is they wanted to have a place of their own right, a place where they can control their labor and their lives. – Michael Salgarolo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The universal sentiment of the Filipino has been reflected in the different surveys and in many forums, caucuses, and meetings to discuss what should I do in my life. – Duterte Carpio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The overwhelming sentiment of the Filipino is that I am not qualified and it would be a violation of the Constitution to circumvent the law, the spirit of the Constitution, and so, in obedience to the will of the people, who after all placed me in the presidency many years ago, I now say, sa mga kababayan ko, sundin ko ang gusto ninyo( my countrymen, I will heed Duterte Carpio advice). And today, I announce my retirement from politics. – Duterte Carpio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The bottom line is that Filipinos be recognized for their contribution to the United States, and that every Filipino should be proud of that as well. – Rene Trinidad	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Three times as many Filipino health care workers have died here in the US than in the Philippines, so right away we know that there's something wrong. – Jollene Levid	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Kau said about the judge and the protests against racial injustice and police misconduct across the nation. She argued it wasnt the same because Filipino American is Filipino American and the victim is white. Two years ago I made a decision Im not proud of. – Filipino American	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are 23 seafarers onboard of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationality. – Erik Hanell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Filipino people must send a strong signal to China that any new 'gray zone' offensive of ramming Filipino fishing vessels ...will mean a break of diplomatic ties. – Antonio Carpio	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You are a Filipino who was allowed to abuse our country ... in the name of the holy grail of press freedom, you are not only throwing toilet paper, you are throwing shit at us. – Rodrigo Duterte	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by MuerteEnCuatroActos 5 years ago
My greatest misgiving in this Army is the old system of the Filipino people. For an honest man it is rather the cause of my unhappiness. I am unhappy every time I see an officer or a reserve given more advantage over his brother officer because of his political or personal pull. That irritates me so much, I just cannot get over it. – Vicente Lim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
The principal defect of our national defense is not the training nor the lack of finances, but the great and dangerous defect of democracy which has been implanted into the minds of the Filipino people. We have a nationally wrong conception of democracy. Our democracy in the Philippines is unilateral. It is only for the benefit, for the freedom, for the rights, comfort and happiness of each individual member of the nation. That is the common belief, and I venture to say that 99.9% of our people believe in that kind of democracy. They do not know their obligations, their duties and the sacrifices that they should give to the state which is the relative counterpart of the amount of personal democracy he should indulge. The two should balance. – Vicente Lim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
We are listening to an argument by petitioners alleging that the carbon majors are contributing to climate change which in turn is impacting negatively on the human rights of Filipino people. – Roberto Cadiz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Are you even Filipino if you don't have these babies at thanksgiving? we normally eat a huge array of food. – Denise Fulgencio	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think we stood our ground and I think I'm proud of the Gilas Pilipinas boys for standing our ground, fighting for the Filipino people. – Roberto Puno	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
No priest, and no human being for that matter, deserves to be killed with utter brutality, disrespect and impunity, to kill a priest then, for whatever motive or cause, is not only unChristian and inhuman ; it is also un-Filipino. – Sofronio Bancud	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I’ve heard some complaints from my other Filipino teachers, I mean, from my friends, that some American teachers, they think we’re incompetent, especially in speaking English, for some parents, I’ve heard some of my friends, they told me that some parents are hard to deal with. I ’m not sure if it’s because of their kids or if it relates to our country. – Adrian Calabano	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music, it’s all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [ that’s ] how I feel about the Filipino culture. – Ja Du	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Whenever I ’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I ’m in my own skin, i ’d watch the history channel sometimes for hours, you know, whenever it came to that and, you know, nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture. – Ja Du	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I’d watch The History Channel sometimes for hours you know whenever it came to that and you know nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture. – Ja Du	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

In trying to be politically correct, they were politically wrong. People who were trying to be politically correct judged Herve because of how he looked. Herve was not Filipino, he had a form of dwarfism that gave him a certain outward appearance. Herve Villechaize was French.

– Peter Dinklage

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Until you sit down with the brother of the man who you’re playing, who is not Filipino, who’s French, and have a laugh about how crazy the world is in assuming because of how someone looks, they judge of what they must be, and here we are making a movie all about judging how you look, but people who thought they were doing the right thing were doing the exact same thing. We had a few laughs about that.

– Peter Dinklage

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They love basketball, it’s super inspirational for the youth and anybody with Filipino blood. It’s an amazing experience.

– Jordan Clarkson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Filipino American seamen in Louisiana were willing to live out in the marsh far away, so The Filipino seamen in Louisiana could make a decent living, but it was a risk when the storms came through every 10 years or so, and then, the whole place was destroyed and they rebuilt, and that's the story of climate migration, where after a while, some of them had enough of the storms.

– Randy Gonzales

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All throughout the 1800s, there are little pockets of Filipino sailors all over the world, and in a couple cases, particularly New Orleans, they form these kind of fishing settlements outside of outside of the port cities, for these Filipinos who ended up at St. Malo, part of what they wanted to do is they wanted to have a place of their own right, a place where they can control their labor and their lives.

– Michael Salgarolo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The universal sentiment of the Filipino has been reflected in the different surveys and in many forums, caucuses, and meetings to discuss what should I do in my life.

– Duterte Carpio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The overwhelming sentiment of the Filipino is that I am not qualified and it would be a violation of the Constitution to circumvent the law, the spirit of the Constitution, and so, in obedience to the will of the people, who after all placed me in the presidency many years ago, I now say, sa mga kababayan ko, sundin ko ang gusto ninyo( my countrymen, I will heed Duterte Carpio advice). And today, I announce my retirement from politics.

– Duterte Carpio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The bottom line is that Filipinos be recognized for their contribution to the United States, and that every Filipino should be proud of that as well.

– Rene Trinidad

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Three times as many Filipino health care workers have died here in the US than in the Philippines, so right away we know that there's something wrong.

– Jollene Levid

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Kau said about the judge and the protests against racial injustice and police misconduct across the nation. She argued it wasnt the same because Filipino American is Filipino American and the victim is white. Two years ago I made a decision Im not proud of.

– Filipino American

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are 23 seafarers onboard of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationality.

– Erik Hanell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Filipino people must send a strong signal to China that any new 'gray zone' offensive of ramming Filipino fishing vessels ...will mean a break of diplomatic ties.

– Antonio Carpio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You are a Filipino who was allowed to abuse our country ... in the name of the holy grail of press freedom, you are not only throwing toilet paper, you are throwing shit at us.

– Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal

added by MuerteEnCuatroActos
5 years ago

My greatest misgiving in this Army is the old system of the Filipino people. For an honest man it is rather the cause of my unhappiness. I am unhappy every time I see an officer or a reserve given more advantage over his brother officer because of his political or personal pull. That irritates me so much, I just cannot get over it.

– Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The principal defect of our national defense is not the training nor the lack of finances, but the great and dangerous defect of democracy which has been implanted into the minds of the Filipino people. We have a nationally wrong conception of democracy. Our democracy in the Philippines is unilateral. It is only for the benefit, for the freedom, for the rights, comfort and happiness of each individual member of the nation. That is the common belief, and I venture to say that 99.9% of our people believe in that kind of democracy. They do not know their obligations, their duties and the sacrifices that they should give to the state which is the relative counterpart of the amount of personal democracy he should indulge. The two should balance.

– Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

We are listening to an argument by petitioners alleging that the carbon majors are contributing to climate change which in turn is impacting negatively on the human rights of Filipino people.

– Roberto Cadiz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Are you even Filipino if you don't have these babies at thanksgiving? we normally eat a huge array of food.

– Denise Fulgencio

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think we stood our ground and I think I'm proud of the Gilas Pilipinas boys for standing our ground, fighting for the Filipino people.

– Roberto Puno

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

No priest, and no human being for that matter, deserves to be killed with utter brutality, disrespect and impunity, to kill a priest then, for whatever motive or cause, is not only unChristian and inhuman ; it is also un-Filipino.

– Sofronio Bancud

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I’ve heard some complaints from my other Filipino teachers, I mean, from my friends, that some American teachers, they think we’re incompetent, especially in speaking English, for some parents, I’ve heard some of my friends, they told me that some parents are hard to deal with. I ’m not sure if it’s because of their kids or if it relates to our country.

– Adrian Calabano

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music, it’s all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [ that’s ] how I feel about the Filipino culture.

– Ja Du

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Whenever I ’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I ’m in my own skin, i ’d watch the history channel sometimes for hours, you know, whenever it came to that and, you know, nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.

– Ja Du

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I’d watch The History Channel sometimes for hours you know whenever it came to that and you know nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.

– Ja Du

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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