Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Jim Talent

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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

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People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

Max Riemelt

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Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Angel Cabrera

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I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

Michael Bloomberg

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Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I've never watched an episode of 'Star Trek.' For real.

Steve Zahn

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I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our job and making a buck - important though those things are. Arts programming isn't some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury.

Simon Schama

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The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison.

Roger Ross Williams

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Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

Miguel Sapochnik

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The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Mike Lee

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