Mexican Quotes - Page 7

• It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Eating, Treats, Okay

  "Jennifer Aniston on the Health Issue That's Been Holding Her Back". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. August 25, 2016.

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• I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

  Pope Francis

  People, Population, Surprise

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  People, Actors, Littles

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• I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

  Wentworth Miller

  Humility, Boys, People

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• The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Self, Leader

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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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• All of these concoctions that we think are Mexican, are in no way reflective of the deep, incredibly old, complex and sophisticated deep regional cuisine of Mexico. Or the new modern Mexican cuisine, which has really been exploding over the last few years. I think we just have a completely misrepresented view of how good, how complex these flavors are. I think we could learn a lot more. It's a great cuisine that's really moving forward, faster than any other.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, Black

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Thinking, Southern

  Source: nefac.net

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• You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

  Lee Trevino

  Making Money

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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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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  M. Ward

  Grandparent, Mexico, Grew Up

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• So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Beer, Thinking, Drink

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• The country of Mexico has just gotten its first Taco Bell. You're Welcome. Finally, Mexicans will have access to... Mexican food. Bon appetit. I can't imagine how confused they will be when they get a taco.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Confused, Mexico

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• Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

  Gary Shilling

  Wall, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Years, People

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• In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Jail, Bail

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

  Felipe Esparza

  Latino

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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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• We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.

  Al Madrigal

  Party, Missing, Mexico

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• I'm half-Mexican - get used to it 'cause in about five to 10 years, you're all gonna be related to one. Whether you like it or not, no matter how much you prepared your family, you're gonna show up at Thanksgiving one of these years, you're gonna walk in and say, 'Hey! What's happening? Since when did we start serving flan?' Well, what's happening is that somebody's boning a Latino.

  Al Madrigal

  Years, Hey, Half

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• I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

  Felipe Esparza

  Home, Giving, House

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• Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

  Carlos Mencia

  Girl, Teacher, Years

  "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.

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• The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mexican Border, United States, Borders

  Source: thehumanist.com

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