Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
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I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
