Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?

Jimmy Chin

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I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.

John Cho

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I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.

Andrew Luck

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You don't fix the problem until you define it.

John W. Snow

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God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Sojourner Truth

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My law degree has always been incredibly helpful.

Judy Smith

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Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Lisa Lutz

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I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

Jud Tylor

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Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

Jordan Peterson

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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

Anne McCaffrey

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Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

William Kingdon Clifford

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'Sports Illustrated' has set the standard for what a swimsuit model should be. For a magazine that has that much influence to include models of different body types on their pages shows that they're breaking down old beauty ideals while opening the doors of diversity and inclusivity.

Philomena Kwao

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