Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Joan Halifax

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Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.

Jen Lancaster

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I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Max Roach

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When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Matthew Lillard

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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Jeff Bezos

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The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

John Varvatos

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The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

Rouben Mamoulian

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A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Mike Huckabee

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'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.

Michael Madsen

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Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

Moby

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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Jason Mraz

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I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Dominique McElligott

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