Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
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I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
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Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.
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I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
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I don't like being angry all the time; it's not good for me. I have to have serenity or else go to war.
