Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
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Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
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Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.
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I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.