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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When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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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.
