Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Why
  • Think
  • Everyone

• I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  

  Harland Williams
  • American
  • Pride
  • Citizen

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Live
  • Personal

• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Why
  • Game
  • Team

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• 'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • American
  • Man
  • Serious

• I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.

  

  Damien Rice
  • God
  • Live
  • Love

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• 'What the Republicans have been doing is an insult to America. ...These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.' Questioned, 'Why are you name-calling?' 'I didn't call names, what I said is true.'

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Why
  • America
  • True

• I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

  

  John Gordon Sinclair
  • Life
  • Game

• I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Live
  • Why
  • American