Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1948

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Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

Jodie Foster

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We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

John Foster Dulles

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If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.

Max Burns

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Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

Anja Rubik

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I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Michael J. Fox

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It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Stanley Schmidt

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I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'

Robert Englund

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I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Robin Day

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Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

Ry Cooder

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Service of any type requires preparation.

Russell M. Nelson

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It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Judy Collins

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We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.

Jay DeMarcus

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