Carlos Fuentes Quotes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Problem
  • Possible
  • Theory

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Guided
  • Anna

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Become
  • Well-Rounded

• The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • First
  • Step
  • Key

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Business
  • Pleasure
  • Temple

• Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Said
  • Loved
  • Clothing

• When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Courage
  • Ignorance
  • Determination

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

  

  William Jay
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Religion

• Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Career
  • Parents

• The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Circumstances

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography