Source : Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.”
Source : "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014. 
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
Source : Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria
Source : "The Dregs of Dictatorship". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2012.
“I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.”
“People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.”
Source : "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."”
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