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.Luis Alberto Urrea
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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.
Rand Paul -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
Gary Hart -
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.
Lajos Kossuth -
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.
Rafael Nadal
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson -
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson -
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi -
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
Yasmine Bleeth -
Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
Randeep Hooda -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey
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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.
Beck Bennett -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
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.
Karl Rove -
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.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
Sam Graves -
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
Gary Wright
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I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.
Andre Braugher -
They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.
Bernie Ecclestone -
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
Jackie Earle Haley -
Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
John Newcombe -
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
John Bytheway -
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.
Luis Alberto Urrea