Jan C. Ting Quotes
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
-
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
-
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
-
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
-
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
-
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
-
Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
-
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
-
I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
-
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
-
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
-
My journey has been that of a character actor.
-
One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
-
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
-
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
-
I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
-
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
-
I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
-
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
-
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
-
Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.
-
There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.
-
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
