Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.
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Gay is not a choice.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
