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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: August 20, 1955

Topics

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I work out, but I'm not doing it specifically because I show my butt on TV.

Jimmy Smits

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

John Berger

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I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.

Joel Grey

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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Ambrose Bierce

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If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

Sibel Kekilli

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You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

Roger Ebert

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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Ruth Rendell

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I learned not to care what other people think.

Mary Steenburgen

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When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,' and you're still good at what you do, how do you decide what work to take on? I think the answer is that you pursue what you enjoy. In my case, it's variety.

Martin Short

WorkGoodJobThinkEnoughEnjoy

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Mitt Romney

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I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.

Jared Polis

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