Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

Jessica Williams

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I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.

Jerry Hall

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I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Andre Holland

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He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Max Stirner

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Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

Jeff Van Gundy

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To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Sinead O'Connor

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I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Martin Short

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Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

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You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Jason Mraz

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I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

Johnny Mathis

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Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.

Colm Wilkinson

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Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Cilla Black

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