Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
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I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to make it easier, secure, and affordable to save, spend, give, and borrow.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
