Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

Johannes P. Muller

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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

Andrew Stanton

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I would say that while most Muslims take offense at the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, they would never resort to violence. It is a minority of extremist Muslims who take such actions, and they do it for political and tactical reasons far beyond just being offended.

Maz Jobrani

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I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.

Robin Van Persie

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

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If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.

Julia Garner

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'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.

Deborah Tannen

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I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

Chris March

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My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

Brad Goreski

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