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Top 30 Randy Ribay Quotes (2024 Update)

Randy Ribay Quote: “I will try not to judge because I have no idea what you were struggling with in your heart, what complicated your soul. None of us are just one thing, I guess.”

1. “I will try not to judge because I have no idea what you were struggling with in your heart, what complicated your soul. None of us are just one thing, I guess.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “My family, myself, this world – all of us are flawed. But flawed doesn’t mean hopeless. It doesn’t mean forsaken. It doesn’t mean lost.”

2. “My family, myself, this world – all of us are flawed. But flawed doesn’t mean hopeless. It doesn’t mean forsaken. It doesn’t mean lost.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “Like a tree in the wind, he will bend before the strength of my conviction.”

3. “Like a tree in the wind, he will bend before the strength of my conviction.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “It’s easy to romanticize a place when it’s far away. Filipino Americans have a tendency to do that. Even me. Sometimes I miss it so much. The beaches. The water. The rice paddies. The carabao. The food. Most of all, my family.”

4. “It’s easy to romanticize a place when it’s far away. Filipino Americans have a tendency to do that. Even me. Sometimes I miss it so much. The beaches. The water. The rice paddies. The carabao. The food. Most of all, my family.”

— Randy Ribay

Randy Ribay Quote: “How do you mourn someone you already let slip away? Are you even allowed to?”

5. “How do you mourn someone you already let slip away? Are you even allowed to?”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “That’s not how stories work, is it? They are shifting things that re-form with each new telling, transform with each new teller. Less solid, and more liquid taking the shape of its container.”

6. “That’s not how stories work, is it? They are shifting things that re-form with each new telling, transform with each new teller. Less solid, and more liquid taking the shape of its container.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “None of us are just one thing, I guess. None of us. We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That’s the way it is.”

7. “None of us are just one thing, I guess. None of us. We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That’s the way it is.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”

8. “Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “People are sick sand starving to death in our country, in our streets, and nobody cares. They worry instead about grades and popularity and money and trying to go to America. I don’t want to be another one of those people who just pretends like they don’t know about the suffering, like they don’t see it every single day, like they don’t walk past it on their way to school or work.”

9. “People are sick sand starving to death in our country, in our streets, and nobody cares. They worry instead about grades and popularity and money and trying to go to America. I don’t want to be another one of those people who just pretends like they don’t know about the suffering, like they don’t see it every single day, like they don’t walk past it on their way to school or work.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “You saw my pain for what it was, recognized it as if it were your own, and gave me the love I needed to heal. I will never forget that.”

10. “You saw my pain for what it was, recognized it as if it were your own, and gave me the love I needed to heal. I will never forget that.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That’s the way it is. I suppose we just go on and do the best we can and try to do more good than bad using our time in Earth.”

11. “We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That’s the way it is. I suppose we just go on and do the best we can and try to do more good than bad using our time in Earth.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “It strikes me that I cannot claim this country’s serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me.”

12. “It strikes me that I cannot claim this country’s serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world – all of us are flawed. But flawed doesn’t mean hopeless. It doesn’t mean forsaken. It doesn’t mean lost. We are not doomed to suffer things as they are, silent and alone. We do not have to leave questions and letters and lives unanswered. We have more power and potential than we know if we would only speak, if we would only listen.”

13. “But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world – all of us are flawed. But flawed doesn’t mean hopeless. It doesn’t mean forsaken. It doesn’t mean lost. We are not doomed to suffer things as they are, silent and alone. We do not have to leave questions and letters and lives unanswered. We have more power and potential than we know if we would only speak, if we would only listen.”

— Randy Ribay

Randy Ribay Quote: “I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be around so many people who look like me. I feel like I belong in a way I never do back in the States.”

14. “I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be around so many people who look like me. I feel like I belong in a way I never do back in the States.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “It was like he used all his compassion on strangers and ran out by the time he came home.”

15. “It was like he used all his compassion on strangers and ran out by the time he came home.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “If we are to be more than what we have been, there’s so much that we need to say. Salvation through honesty, I guess.”

16. “If we are to be more than what we have been, there’s so much that we need to say. Salvation through honesty, I guess.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “You may not speak Tagalog or know as much as you would like about the Philippines, but if we’d stayed, you wouldn’t have had all the opportunities that you’ve had here.”

17. “You may not speak Tagalog or know as much as you would like about the Philippines, but if we’d stayed, you wouldn’t have had all the opportunities that you’ve had here.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “But, it seems to me that there are so many older than us who are able to take care of those in need. If everyone did a little bit, then everybody would be okay, I think. Instead, most people do nothing. And that is the problem.”

18. “But, it seems to me that there are so many older than us who are able to take care of those in need. If everyone did a little bit, then everybody would be okay, I think. Instead, most people do nothing. And that is the problem.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “Kuya Jun had a way of making people pay attention, of making them realize that others existed outside of themselves and getting them to care.”

19. “Kuya Jun had a way of making people pay attention, of making them realize that others existed outside of themselves and getting them to care.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “When you’re a kid, they lie and say you did a great job in a game even if you sucked. Then you grow up a bit and your mom and dad lie to you about how strong their relationship is and how much they love each other after they have a big fight. Then you grow up a bit more and they tell you the lie that life is as simple as studying hard, getting into a good college, and finding a decent job. Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”

20. “When you’re a kid, they lie and say you did a great job in a game even if you sucked. Then you grow up a bit and your mom and dad lie to you about how strong their relationship is and how much they love each other after they have a big fight. Then you grow up a bit more and they tell you the lie that life is as simple as studying hard, getting into a good college, and finding a decent job. Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “So what’s your informed opinion?” “That it’s not my place to say what’s right or wrong in a country that’s not mine.” “But you lived there. You’re married to a Filipino. You have Filipino children.” “Filipino American children,” she corrects. “And it’s not the same.”

21. “So what’s your informed opinion?” “That it’s not my place to say what’s right or wrong in a country that’s not mine.” “But you lived there. You’re married to a Filipino. You have Filipino children.” “Filipino American children,” she corrects. “And it’s not the same.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “No matter the source, most follow the same flow: They describe the drug and corruption problems, Duterte’s solution, and the mounting body count. Few include the victims’ full names. Most suggest that these killings are crimes against humanity, including a note about the international community’s condemnation – but inaction.”

22. “No matter the source, most follow the same flow: They describe the drug and corruption problems, Duterte’s solution, and the mounting body count. Few include the victims’ full names. Most suggest that these killings are crimes against humanity, including a note about the international community’s condemnation – but inaction.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “So we’re just going to act like this didn’t happen? Like Jun didn’t even exist?” After a beat, she turns around to face me and crosses her arms. “If that’s what’s best for his family, then yes.”

23. “So we’re just going to act like this didn’t happen? Like Jun didn’t even exist?” After a beat, she turns around to face me and crosses her arms. “If that’s what’s best for his family, then yes.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “I thought of the sermon we had just heard at Mass that morning. It was about the Good Samaritan. You know the one? I think everyone does. Or, at least, everyone has heard it. Every time I do, I think, surely, if I were in that situation I would be like the Samaritan and help the man in need. But how many times have I instead walked past?”

24. “I thought of the sermon we had just heard at Mass that morning. It was about the Good Samaritan. You know the one? I think everyone does. Or, at least, everyone has heard it. Every time I do, I think, surely, if I were in that situation I would be like the Samaritan and help the man in need. But how many times have I instead walked past?”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “I’m not sure what I want to do. For some reason, that’s not okay. Everyone acts like seventeen-year-olds who don’t have their career path mapped out are wasting their lives.”

25. “I’m not sure what I want to do. For some reason, that’s not okay. Everyone acts like seventeen-year-olds who don’t have their career path mapped out are wasting their lives.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “Our family doesn’t talk much, and usually anything important is passed along in fragments so that it feels like we’re playing that telephone game, except a sadder, real-life version.”

26. “Our family doesn’t talk much, and usually anything important is passed along in fragments so that it feels like we’re playing that telephone game, except a sadder, real-life version.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “His courage was like this storm. Mine is like a single raindrop. his life was defined by his constant drive to do what he thought was right. Mine is defined by everything I don’t do.”

27. “His courage was like this storm. Mine is like a single raindrop. his life was defined by his constant drive to do what he thought was right. Mine is defined by everything I don’t do.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “We all have this same intense ability to love running through us. It wasn’t only Jun. But for some reason, so many of us don’t use it like he did. We keep it hidden. We bury it until it becomes an underground river. Until we barely remember it’s there. Until it’s too far down to tap. But maybe it’s time to dig it up. To let the sun hit the water. To let it flood.”

28. “We all have this same intense ability to love running through us. It wasn’t only Jun. But for some reason, so many of us don’t use it like he did. We keep it hidden. We bury it until it becomes an underground river. Until we barely remember it’s there. Until it’s too far down to tap. But maybe it’s time to dig it up. To let the sun hit the water. To let it flood.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “I’m simultaneously bursting with pride at my cousin’s integrity and hating him for his inability to suppress it like the rest of us do with such ease.”

29. “I’m simultaneously bursting with pride at my cousin’s integrity and hating him for his inability to suppress it like the rest of us do with such ease.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “It’s a sad thing when you map the borders of a friendship and find it’s a narrower country than expected.”

30. “It’s a sad thing when you map the borders of a friendship and find it’s a narrower country than expected.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “When you grow up in a country like the United States, you’re constantly told it’s the greatest place in the world. But then you go somewhere else one day and find out that bathroom doors like this exist, and you start to question everything.”

31. “When you grow up in a country like the United States, you’re constantly told it’s the greatest place in the world. But then you go somewhere else one day and find out that bathroom doors like this exist, and you start to question everything.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “I expected the truth to illuminate, to resurrect. Not to ruin.”

32. “I expected the truth to illuminate, to resurrect. Not to ruin.”

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Randy Ribay Quote: “What is the point, you know? People are sick and starving to death in our country, in our streets, and nobody cares.”

33. “What is the point, you know? People are sick and starving to death in our country, in our streets, and nobody cares.”

— Randy Ribay

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