Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.
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There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.
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On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
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My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.
