Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
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I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
