Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.
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Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.
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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.'
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The will for the deed.
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Humanism is only another name for spiritual laziness, or a vague half-creed adopted by men of science and logicians whose heads are too occupied with the world of mathematics and physics to worry about religious categories.
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A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
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The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a dinner on Christmas Eve. It was more about keeping the kids calm. Sometime after dark is when we were going to open all the presents underneath the tree from Mom, Dad and the kids and everything - just the family presents was every Christmas Eve.
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I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
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Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.
