I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.
I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
I'm an immigrant, a legal immigrant to the United States. I only became a citizen five years ago. Every day, for seven months, I pinched myself as I was walking in and out of the West Wing, so it's only in America, right? Only in America.
I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.
I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.
You have almost zero chance of being killed by a refugee in America. You have almost no chance of being killed in a terrorist attack by an immigrant - by any kind of immigrant, let alone an Islamic immigrant.
I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.