Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
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If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.
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You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
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I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
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While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
