"Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old."

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Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (1993). “Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border”, Anchor

Luis Alberto Urrea

#People Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Common Quotes

“I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.
“If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.”
“Why didnâ€™t you wake me up?' 'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.' Claryâ€˜s hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.' 'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.”
“The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”
“Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.”

Source : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
“The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.”

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