Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
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Life's too short to just breeze on by.
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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
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Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.
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I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
