Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’
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There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.
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Across the board, this program has been an abject failure.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.
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Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
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A tropical Mussolini
