Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.

Jennifer Garner

ChildrenPeopleMeFindNowMy Own

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

Anna Quindlen

LifeLoveStrengthMotherGreatMan

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

John Sayles

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The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

RulesSayCelebrityPretendCanadian

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

Soledad O'Brien

BeautifulThinkBeing BeautifulBeing

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Steven Spielberg

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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Steve Martin

ArtYouWantCraftWhateverYour

I used to watch my mom put her makeup on for the stage, and it was one of the most special moments. I would sit quietly on the dressing room floor and watch her put her face on. I think she looks most beautiful in the morning when she wakes up with no makeup on... it's my favorite look on women.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.

Mike Wallace

StyleCandidNightJumpSometimes

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

Mike Duke

TimeBeingMy TimeSpendEconomist

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

Juan Gabriel

ArtistCountSingKnowsHow

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Jonathan Sacks

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