Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
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I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.
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Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
