Carlos Fuentes Quotes
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
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I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
