Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.
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I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.
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In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.
