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Duterte Says God Warned Him Off Swearing
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said on Thursday that he made a promise to stop swearing because God spoke to him during a flight from Japan.
SHOWS: DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES (OCTOBER 27, 2016) (RTVM - ACCESS ALL)(SOUNDBITE) (English) PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT, RODRIGO DUTERTE, SAYING: (PART OVERLAYS SHOT 4)“I was looking at the skies while I was coming over here, and I just... everybody was asleep snoring, but a voice said that you know, if you don’t stop epithets, I will bring this plane down now. And I said who is this? So, of course it’s God, OK. So I promised God not to express slang, cuss words and everything.”//“But it’s all calibrated, it’s all about timing, just watch out for one thing in life, that’s what I’ve learned - miscalculation.”//
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