Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Brain
  • Model

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

  

  David Cohen
  • Advice
  • Mentor

• When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Way
  • Suggestions

• The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Country
  • Heart
  • History

• I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

  

  Marion Barry
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• All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
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  • Immigration