Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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It's very difficult to make a 100% turnaround. It's tough when you actually do exhibit patterns of bad behavior. You need to have a very strong support system of people who are willing to keep you in your place if you're going to overcome these things.
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However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
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We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
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It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.
