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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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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I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.
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I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.
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Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.
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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.'
