Jan C. Ting Quotes

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Jan C. Ting

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Young

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Broken
  • Connection

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • King
  • Broken

• Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Problems
  • Immigration
  • Now

• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Broken
  • Cause
  • Themselves

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People
  • God
  • Rest

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Broken

• The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Strong
  • Broken
  • Habit

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Broken

• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Up
  • Truth
  • American

• Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting - even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

  

  Jan C. Ting
  • Broken
  • Immigration