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I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila. -- Sukarno
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. -- Muhammad Ali
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. -- Timothy Noah
I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila. -- John Gokongwei
Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around. -- Luke Evans
I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate, factories, or other enterprises, in order to give equal opportunities to all other regions. -- Andrew Tan
Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. -- Tom Douglas
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. -- Imelda Marcos
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman
You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure. -- Paris Hilton
I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila! -- June Millington
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! -- Lady Gaga
As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel. -- Florencio Abad
Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life. -- Arlene J. Chai
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. -- John Grisham
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places. -- Teju Cole
Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease. -- Mohsin Hamid
All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it, -- Jessica Hagedorn
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. -- Yann Martel
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman
I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid. -- Jessica Hagedorn
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means. -- Pico Iyer
I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience. -- Sid Waddell
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics. -- Jack Newfield

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