Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

  

  Capucine
  • Think
  • Man
  • Myself

• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Sleep
  • Busy

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
  • Constant

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Excuse

• The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Age
  • Religious

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Attention
  • Kid
  • Pressure

• Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Soul

• Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Family

• We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Country
  • Children

• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Failure
  • Courage
  • Obstacles

• I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Country