Jose Antonio Vargas quote: "When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent."

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and bl...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zucker...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some o...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade a...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, ...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do wit...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien ...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening ...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got old...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia pag...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state o...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.
JOSE ANTONIO VIERA GALLO

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

The fact there is a Latino on the ballot adds a level of excitement to the race, so Latinos will be ...
ARTURO VARGAS

Voters in the West are a neglected constituency. Presidential candidates have a responsibility to kn...
ARTURO VARGAS

Ensuring adequate resources for our schools and closing the achievement gap for Latino students is a...
ARTURO VARGAS

There has been a steady increase since the 1994 election, except for 2002, ... which was attributabl...
ARTURO VARGAS

Obesity is a health risk impacting all our communities and we are encouraged by the commitment commu...
ARTURO VARGAS

The fiesta would be celebrated for two and a half weeks, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 15 or 16. They had ho...
ARMANDO VARGAS

We can see how it could me misinterpreted. The policy applies to all products. We're applying it acr...
INES VARGAS

This is no slur on our incredible talented and hardworking correspondents. The fact of the matter is...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a...
CHAVELA VARGAS

I didn't think it was that bad. I could still see. I wasn't retreating. I would have stepped it up i...
FERNANDO VARGAS

I am a perfectionist.
FERNANDO VARGAS

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a l...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

Jesus kinda fools around and gives you parables. He doesn't oftentimes say exactly what he means...
JUAN VARGAS

This is a very good thing for our customers in terms of our Trustworthy Computing initiative.
INES VARGAS

They will try to solicit foster parents. There's a shortage of foster parents in Arizona. Children g...
ARMANDO VARGAS

At the beginning they wanted me to sing as sweet as a flower, even Ernesto Alonso put me a strapless...
CHAVELA VARGAS

Others tried to tell me not to fight like that, but it wasn't until Danny Smith came along that I st...
FERNANDO VARGAS

Mary's great grandfather was from China and migrated to Mexico. Her son, Lee, was the first one to h...
ARMANDO VARGAS

The cost is being paid for by gas and impact fees. The price depends on material costs and availabil...
GARY VARGAS

A True friend see's the first tear, stops the second, and prevents the third.
KYLE VARGAS

Despite massive geographical distances, we were really bonding and I feel jelling into a great team.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

Be very wary of anyone who tells you can get away with this, because you may get away with it one ti...
KEN VARGAS

There's only one of you in the world. Make your name heard (in a good way) Give people a reason to s...
KYLE VARGAS

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
CHAVELA VARGAS

I went to Mexico because it has a magic that does not have any other country in the world, but I ins...
CHAVELA VARGAS

Do the work so that the success of silence to noise
TIMOTHY VARGAS

This was about as unplanned as it gets.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS

When you like something, you should do it all night long.
CHAVELA VARGAS

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

The indictment today has big implications for the Republican Party and the President. And ABC's Geor...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

This is not something you just sort of go 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on, ... You d...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

This is not something you just sort of go, 'Oh, got carjacked and shot, all right, move on,' ... You...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

It provides an opportunity for viewers to see a more in-depth coverage of the story and a more perso...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I'm very thankful. The generosity is overwhelming. It's good to see there are people willing to help...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

[Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

Congressman DeLay is the single most powerful member of Congress. This has got to affect the Republi...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

On World News Tonight , one of the most powerful men in Washington indicted in a campaign finance sc...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I've never hit a guy with that many power shots and not have him go down. He's a tough kid.
DEVIN VARGAS

I hadn't seen these guys since Athens, but it seems like we picked up right where we left off, just ...
DEVIN VARGAS

As an Olympian, I know I have to prove something extra, ... In the Olympics, I was having fun. Befor...
DEVIN VARGAS

I kind of went in there bigheaded, ... I haven't fought anyone with that (style) since I was maybe 1...
DEVIN VARGAS

He tells us what we should and shouldn't do.
DENIS VARGAS

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I was saddened by the fact that I was not given the opportunity to resolve the issues facing teacher...
EDWIN VARGAS

It looks like a divided union.
EDWIN VARGAS

I started in elementary school. I tried clarinet first since my mom had played it but I didn't like ...
ERIC VARGAS

I didn't achieve my goal (state championship), so for that reason, I'm not happy with myself. But I ...
ERIC VARGAS

Mr. Gonzales ... ?
ELIZABETH VARGAS

This is a 230-calorie snack you know. See? I've worked hard.
FERNANDO VARGAS

I was looking for that pitch, a fastball. I didn't try to do much. I just tried to hit the ball.
CLAUDIO VARGAS

We've got a good defense, and when you've got a good tempo in the game everybody is focused on the g...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I don't know. Next time I pitch [at home] I will try to do what I did today. The only thing I have t...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I felt pretty good out there. I had my fastball and change-up. I've been working a lot in the bullpe...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I felt pretty good. All my pitches worked today and my location was good.
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I'm happy. I worked hard for that. That's what I like to do.
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I feel happy. That's what I like to do, be a starter, and I think I did my job in the starting rotat...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I like to start. If they put me in the bullpen, I go out there and do my job. I feel very good about...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I feel pretty good. [I] missed a couple of pitches. My arm and my whole body feels very good.
CLAUDIO VARGAS

The location was better early in the game. It's hard to throw a breaking ball here, especially in th...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

$500 a month for family health insurance, how can I pay that? Even with the raise, we make to little...
CLARA VARGAS

I am very hurt, but very grateful that our fight will continue.
CLARA VARGAS

We want what every worker in the country wants: a better future for their family.
CLARA VARGAS

The mayor has been here along with commissioners, Congress members. They have all promised to try to...
CLARA VARGAS

I was winning the fight with one eye. If I was him and I would've seen me, I would've gone for broke...
FERNANDO VARGAS

I was wondering why they stopped the fight. I was the one pushing the action, backing him into the r...
FERNANDO VARGAS

Absolutely I'm asking for revenge.
FERNANDO VARGAS

I didn't think it was that bad. I could still see.
FERNANDO VARGAS

I just pick my spots... I have always been a technician,
FERNANDO VARGAS

I said it before, that I need to look great for my fans and for me to demand the fight. That's what ...
FERNANDO VARGAS

I'm at the point in my life where I'm telling myself I'm not doing that do my body no more. I'm 27 a...
FERNANDO VARGAS

I am thinking of one person and one person only, and that's Shane Mosley. You (media) take my words ...
FERNANDO VARGAS

We're looking at late May as the start date for construction.
GARY VARGAS

I got the ball up in the fifth inning and they took advantage of it a little bit. Joe said that was ...
JASON VARGAS

Those guys are good athletes out there. They're one of the best teams in the country. They are there...
JASON VARGAS

He's a great guy to throw to. I've thrown to him a couple of years now between college and the Minor...
JASON VARGAS

I felt like this was the best I've thrown in a long time. I just got two balls up, and I got caught ...
JASON VARGAS

I felt like I was throwing pitches where I wanted and wasn't getting rewarded for them.
JASON VARGAS

I wasn't tired. I just wasn't fooling anybody. They were hitting pitches they were missing earlier i...
JASON VARGAS

I'm not here to pitch like a rookie -- or act like one. I'm here to help these guys get to the playo...
JASON VARGAS

I think of Jered as another regular guy. He was highly sought-after coming out of college. On the fi...
JASON VARGAS

I wouldn't want it any other way. If it's the game deciding if we're going to go to the playoffs or ...
JASON VARGAS

I've never been in a game of this magnitude. I'm looking forward to it.
JASON VARGAS

We changed the end of support dates to map to the monthly security update release cycle so our custo...
INES VARGAS

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a...
ELIZABETH VARGAS

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
ELIZABETH VARGAS

I saw that Drew miss-hit it and it was a left-footed shot and I am left footed, so I decided to try ...
JUAN VARGAS

You can see the need, just look.
JUAN VARGAS

You know who's going to get hurt? It's the elderly woman who has never had a claim, never done anyth...
JUAN VARGAS

A lot of the bills were written because a natural disaster had happened, and people were writing bil...
JUAN VARGAS

When we opened the casino resort nearly two years ago, we knew we'd have to find a more efficient wa...
RON VARGAS

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equali...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a st...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into i...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't m...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without be...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

If you aren't disciplined in the word of God how do you expect to receive a word from God.
ANTHONY DALE VARGAS

Satan will use you, abuse you, and confuse you.
ANTHONY DALE VARGAS

What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold? Main...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take ref...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Prosperity or egalitarianism / you have to choose. I favor freedom / you never achieve real equality...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submer...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

We are stewards of the Gospel so it's not if we share it but it's more like we Got too!
ANTHONY DALE VARGAS

Vicente Fox has a truly titanic task upon his shoulders because dismantling an authoritarian apparat...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Sin does not lead to Sanctification rather seperation.
ANTHONY DALE VARGAS

Jesus is our dying loving savior who came to die, love, and save us!
ANTHONY DALE VARGAS

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Cuando creí que iba a perder la razón ante tanto sufrimiento. Así descubrí que un ser humano no ...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

You cannot teach creativity -- how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, th...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happe...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems da...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in part...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep insi...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
ANTONIO MACHADO

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come....
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA

Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to colleg...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young player...
ANTONIO DAVIS

¡La poesía no es de quien la escribe, sino de quien la usa!
ANTONIO SKáRMETA

To tell the truth is revolutionary.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before pubert...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is ...
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Ant...
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, vo...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul an...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and mak...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
ANTONIO PORCHIA

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. ....
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
ANTONIO BANDERAS

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
ANTONIO GRAMSCI

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
ANTONIO PORCHIA

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a pol...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir...
ANTONIO DAMASIO

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI

I think anything you impose on players, the first reaction is going to be, 'Nah, I don't want to do ...
ANTONIO DAVIS

I don't think it's fair for them to tell you exactly how to dress. You can't say no jeans. I've seen...
ANTONIO DAVIS

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything. I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't ...
ANTONIO DAVIS

The thing that I like so far is that guys care. Nobody's sitting and being complacent with what's go...
ANTONIO DAVIS

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right...
ANTONIO DANIELS

We talked about staying loose. We were missing 30 points and nearly six assists. That's a big part o...
ANTONIO DANIELS

Some nights it's scoring, some nights it's not. Some nights it's defending. If everybody falls in an...
ANTONIO DANIELS

You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, ...
ANTONIO DANIELS

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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