Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
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Usher did the ultimate no-no to me. I will never be with him again, and that is that.
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Music is like film to me.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
