Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Believe
  • You

• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Focus

• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blame

• I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Great
  • Rest
  • Always

• There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Amazing
  • Better
  • Exercise

• Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Proud

• Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • People
  • Real
  • Cool

• I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Up
  • Give
  • I Can

• Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Uncle

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• And what they don't see,Is what is killing me.It's blessing and a curseThat love is blind.

  

  Garth Brooks

• I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Feeling

• A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!'

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Guy

• I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Singing

• A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musicians
  • Heroes

• Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Question
  • Beginning

• I’m always about stuffing as many drawings as I can into one second

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Can
  • Second
  • Drawings

• As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Parents

• I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas