Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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Ksubi' - the Australian jean brand, they're one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand 'Acne', but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn't mind collab'n with those guys though.
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Film in many ways is very literal.
