George J. Borjas Quotes

Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in June 2015, he made some comments that resulted in a political firestorm. Among the least incendiary of those comments was this statement: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems.

George J. Borjas

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Want
  • Thoughts

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • True
  • Reason
  • Like

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.

  

  Verite
  • Small
  • Lost
  • Day

• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Bored

• In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Kids
  • Career
  • College

• I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Peace

• I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • Good
  • Morning

• The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade

• Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  

  Brit Marling
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in June 2015, he made some comments that resulted in a political firestorm. Among the least incendiary of those comments was this statement: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems.

  

  George J. Borjas
  • People
  • Problems
  • Mexico