Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.
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I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
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When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
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I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
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A member of the community should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
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I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
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The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.
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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
