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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Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
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My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.
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Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.
