Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Career
  • Success

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moments
  • Yourself
  • Ups And Downs

• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Concise
  • Compulsive
  • Shopper

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Born
  • England
  • I Was Born

• If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Why
  • Lifetime

• The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Cold

• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad