Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.
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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
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Work is what saves you.
