Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• Desire creates its own object.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Desire
  • Own
  • Creates

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Believe
  • Society
  • I Believe

• In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Americans
  • Taxes

• I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Success
  • Musicians

• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Man
  • Intelligence

• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • School

• Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.

  

  Eminem
  • Drunk
  • Truck

• I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Good
  • Father
  • Single

• Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Black

• As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Important

• I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • House
  • Mirror

• I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Genes

• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Long

• I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.

  

  Amanda Crew
  • Up

• I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Home

• One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Long
  • Space
  • Deep

• I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Hate

• In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Small
  • Bridge

• Every sport has its dangers. I've been pretty lucky, knock on wood. But I've had really confident, brave and smart horses growing up, which I think is important when you're young. You are working with massive animals over big fences, and especially at this top level, there is really no room for error.

  

  Jessica Springsteen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Guy
  • Walking
  • Sorry

• The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Fences