Octavio Paz Quotes
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.
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I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.
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My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
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Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
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I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'
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There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.
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For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
