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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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've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
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Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
