Carlos Fuentes Quotes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carlos Fuentes

• Grease

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Tough
  • Practices
  • Were

• I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Think
  • Listening
  • Could

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Done
  • Speak

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Choose
  • Plan

• We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Audience

• Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

  

  Boyle Roche
  • Done
  • Why

• There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • School
  • Drama

• Every day, I pinch myself. It has been an incredible journey.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Journey

• I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • People
  • Eyes

• I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • People
  • May
  • Purpose

• I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

  

  Bill Irwin

• We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Democracy

• Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Small
  • Fall

• As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

  

  Danny Bonaduce
  • Job
  • Food
  • Dad

• It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Success
  • Failure

• We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Game

• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Friends

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

  

  Maxwell Caulfield
  • Grease

• I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Fun

• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Grease