Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

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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.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Political
  • Me

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• 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.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• 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.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Long
  • Responsibility

• Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Completion

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Great
  • Art
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Important
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Last
  • Consistency
  • Refuge

• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Right
  • Treat

• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

  

  William P. Young
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Soul

• I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room. I could do that, but I don't want to... I try and stay the same and live a fairly normal life.

  

  James Bobin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Awful

• As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Time
  • Hate

• To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Prayer