Juan Vargas Quotes
Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
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Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
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Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
