Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes
The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
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In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.
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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
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The fact is this is a great country because we've always embraced immigrants. The fact is we have every right to enforce our borders and to protect them, but we also need to provide a pathway for citizenship.
