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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'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.
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Film in many ways is very literal.
