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Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Political Personal Tell Going

I like to think that images of people doing amazing things may open people's eyes to the human potential, to the idea that people can do the extraordinary when they set their minds to it.

Eyes People Amazing Think Potential

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

I Am New York Believe Thought Defeat

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

I Am Problems Reality Say Want See

I mean business about standing with President Trump to make America great again.

Business Great America Mean Standing

Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

History Control Never Military Fact

I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.

Stephanie Mills

Respect Mad Young Listen Out Kids

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

Problem Long Back Birth Get Off

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Live People Action Doing I Can Know

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Knowledge Path Discipline Yourself

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

Great Moment Performance Reality You

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.

Discrimination You Golden Way Others

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

Culture Man Society Explore Out

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