Carlos Fuentes Quotes
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
