Luis Gutierrez Quotes
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
Quotes to Explore
-
I caught the acting bug from my dad.
-
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
-
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
-
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
-
I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
-
I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
-
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
-
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
-
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
-
For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
-
Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
-
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
-
I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
-
I just sing. You have to use it.
-
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
-
I never had planned for my life and my career.
-
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
-
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
-
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
-
They will play a part, but it's unlikely they will provide everything we need; they need more support, more aid in deployment.
-
It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
-
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
