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 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.
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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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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.
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Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
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I feel like I get all the good parts of college, cause I just college hop on the weekends and party with them, but I don't have to do any of the school part or the work part.
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My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Patrick might be the best pure athlete on the team. In the fall he was the starting third guy on defense. He is so athletic we can put him anywhere we need to.
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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.
