Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

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• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
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• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
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• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
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• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  

  Adam McKay
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
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• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

  

  Fefe Dobson
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• It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

  

  Samantha Barks
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• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

  

  James MacArthur
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• What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  

  Charles Kettering
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• I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.

  

  Diana Ross
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• I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
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