A Quote by Susanna Moore

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

Susanna Moore

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Betting Camps Filipino Workers

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Susanna Moore
American - Writer
Born: December 9, 1945

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

Ferdinand Marcos

The individual skill of the player determines the outcome, unlike betting on the horses or betting on the lottery. It's not an individual betting against the house and that's an important distinction.

John Pappas

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

Rick Warren

There's such a huge diaspora of Filipino workers around the world and I want to help tell their story.

Pia Wurtzbach

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

Reggie Lee

I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.

Jacob Batalon

Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

Rick Warren

The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.

Nico Santos

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

Lea Salonga

I always wanted to let people know I was Filipino, but I didn't want to go up on stage and make it so you wouldn't understand my jokes because you're white or black. I always wanted to let people know I was Filipino through my mom. That was always my goal. That way, everyone got it. You don't have to be Filipino to understand my mom.

Jo Koy

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

Renato Constantino

There was never a time that I thought of renouncing my Filipino citizenship. I never abandoned my country. I've been here through thick and thin. Jojo Binay is a Filipino.

Jejomar Binay

I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

Carlos Bulosan

Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.

Kelly Evans

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.