Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • Feeling
  • You

• Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Film

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Important
  • Day
  • Start

• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Best

• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • End
  • Media

• One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Sorry
  • Still
  • Dialectical

• I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Money
  • Age
  • Dad

• I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Time
  • Actress
  • saw

• I am happy with what I've done.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Happy

• It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Better
  • Injustice

• I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • You

• We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • World
  • Strong

• Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Moving
  • Ideas

• I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Never
  • Acting
  • Accidental

• If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

  

  George Eliot
  • Clothes
  • Meaning
  • Occasion

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Write
  • Run
  • Poem