Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
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I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.
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On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
