Joe Baca Quotes
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I try to do my best.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.
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I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.
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Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.
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Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
