Emiliano Salinas Quotes
I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.
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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
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A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
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At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
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I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life.
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I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life: I would go to school, play with my friends and cousins. But then my father became President of Mexico, and my life changed.
