Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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With Venus and Serena and their ascension - and you had a lot of kids that saw them and wanted to be like them - it's like any sport, any major athlete, like Michael Jordan in basketball: everybody wanted to be like Mike.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.
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I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
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You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.
