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.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Done
  • Want
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Said
  • Kiss
  • Mouth

• 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.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Remember
  • Tomorrow
  • Promised

• I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Bad
  • Coffee
  • Try

• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Strength

• Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Cooking
  • Depth

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Music
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Winner

• I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Too Much
  • Mouth
  • Curse

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Different
  • Country

• I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Together
  • Capitalism

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • House
  • Blessing
  • Atheism

• We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • God
  • Soul
  • Yield

• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Good
  • Friends

• I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas