Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I think celebrities suck.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.
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I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.
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I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.
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The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
