Mexican Quotes - Page 15

• I read that yesterday, the Mexican peso hit its lowest point since March of 2009. In fact, things got so bad, it was seen leaving a bar with the American dollar.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Money, Yesterday, Leaving

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• Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Thinking, Patriotism

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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• I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.

  Karl Malone

  Funny, Girl, Hunting

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• I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

  Brenda Song

  Italian, Italian Food

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• I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

  Michael Trevino

  Mother, Father, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food. That's pretty much my weakness...and barbecue beef...and Texas beef...and brisket. Any red meat I can get my hands on.

  Eva Longoria

  Texas, Hands, Cooking

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• I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

  Sean Connery

  Mind, Tacos, Puncture

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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• It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

  Chelsea Handler

  Sushi, Freak

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• I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

  Dean Ambrose

  Two, Mexican Border, Jail

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• Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Wife, Film, Yeah

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• I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

  Eminem

  White, Guy, Black

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• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal....

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Long, Immigration

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

  Stephen Colbert

  America, Giving, Tomatoes

  "Colbert in Congress: Politics - or self-parody?". www.nbcnews.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Freshman

  Song: Young Khalifa

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• My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

  James Roday

  Father, Texas, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food.

  Eva Longoria

  Cooking, Brisket, Cooks

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• I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.

  Rick Riordan

  Block, War, Mean

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• I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

  Erin Gruwell

  Labels, Proud, Way

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, Southern

  Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.511, Simon and Schuster

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• On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Dream, Science

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 1, p. 7210, 1974.

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• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  Salma Hayek

  Together, Lucky, Looks

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• I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Labor, Manuals

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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.

  Salma Hayek

  Art, Children, Heritage

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