Ambeth Ocampo Quotes

#1. These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#2. We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#3. As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#4. Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#5. Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

Lenny Kravitz

#6. History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#7. Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#8. If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

Kanye West

#9. Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#10. School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#11. The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.

Tyler Oakley

#12. In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Henri Lefebvre

#13. Make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#14. Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#15. I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas ... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#16. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#17. It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy.

Sibel Kekilli

#18. Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#19. Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

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#20. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

#21. Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#23. There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics.

Florence King

#24. A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#25. Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#26. Reading gives us the furniture of our minds. Reading can spell the difference between independence and slavery; liberation and isolation. Without reading, our history would have turned out differently. Reading made and shaped our heroes. Reading liberates.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#27. It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#28. I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#29. You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#30. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Ambeth R. Ocampo