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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I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.
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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.
