Mexican Quotes - Page 9

• If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

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• If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

  Ann Coulter

  Mexican Border, Borders, Minorities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.132, Crown Forum

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• I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

  Tyler Posey

  Mean, Italian, Race

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

  Anthony Quinn

  Mean, Boys, Names

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• If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.

  Heather Wilson

  Jobs, Believe, Campaigns

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• I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Italian, Player

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• California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  California, Culture, Mexican Culture

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• I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Roles, Fierce

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• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Punishment, Presidential

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Modern Library

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• All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Kids, Hard Work, Years

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

  Rand Paul

  People, Leader, Cunning

  Source: time.com

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• Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?

  Jay Leno

  Italian, Gun, Air

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• We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."

  William T. Vollmann

  Feelings, Different, Borders

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?

  William T. Vollmann

  Borders, Mexico, Littles

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• I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.

  Cesar Millan

  Inspiring, Dog, Guy

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• When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in Indiana can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Pigs, Judging

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Kids, Echoes, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Medicine, America

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• I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. Theyve perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

  Tom DeLonge

  Bread, Sombreros, Items

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• I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I look like the other dudes. Style played a part in it. You're not really going to dress in a suit in a tie.

  Michael Pena

  Ties, Style, Towns

  Source: collider.com

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• I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

  Jenni Rivera

  Singing, Made

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• I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Italian, What Matters

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• If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

  Dave Mustaine

  Wall, Mexican Border, President

  "Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum" by David Sessions, www.thedailybeast.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Democracy, Mexico, Amnesty International

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• I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

  Stanislav Grof

  Taken, Ceremony, Wells

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