Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeSleepReadingBedMostHotels

Who doesn't love Tupac? Those records have such swagger to them. The groove is just incredible.

Anderson East

LoveSwaggerJustRecordsIncredible

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Mel Gibson

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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

TruthJusticeGovernmentBackNever

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Sophie Hannah

StartBookReadingMysteryWantWhy

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

Stan Wawrinka

PracticeWake UpToughEnjoyYouGo

All marriages have their phases.

Robin Wright

MarriagesPhases

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Loretta Lynch

WorkPathTogetherForwardFinding

I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.

Liam Cunningham

FindActingProfessionalHungryOut

Although we use a lot of technology and consume a lot of technology as people of color, we're usually not the ones at the tables doing the creating of it.

Kimberly Bryant

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The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along.

James McNerney

KeyYouReadyKnowNeverRight

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

James Fallows

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The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.

Hugh Prather

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