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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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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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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For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond; strengthen America's families; defend our country and its core values; and revitalize our democracy.
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
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The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
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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.'
