Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
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I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
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And a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
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I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
