Carlos Fuentes Quotes
Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
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If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
