Mexico City Quotes

• I went to Mexico City to visit, and I fell in love with the city. I went to my house to pick up my stuff. It was the craziest, most impulsive move I've ever done. I just felt like I had to stay there.

  Julieta Venegas

  Moving, Cities, House

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Latin, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Depressing, Mean, Cities

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

  Greg Kinnear

  Cities, Mexico

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• The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Years, Cities

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• Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Class, Cities, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

  Ry Cooder

  Cities, Mexico, Los Angeles

  Ry Cooder (2013). “Los Angeles Stories”, p.54, City Lights Books

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• I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Real, Kids, Cities

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

  Bob Dylan

  Cities, Mind, Mexico

  "Jack Kerouac" by Alison Behnke, (p. 100), 2007.

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• I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

  Anne Waldman

  Earthquakes, Cities, America

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

  Michael Nyman

  Cities, Mexico, Threat

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• Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Inspiration, Cities

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• There was a change in tone in terms of the [Donald] Trump who showed up in Mexico City for this press conference.

  Steve Kornacki

  Cities, Tone, Mexico

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that, when Enrique Pena Nieto invited Hillary Clinton and invited Donald Trump to meet with him here in Mexico City, it was a thought that maybe, in the future, whoever won the presidency, during that transition period, or right after, would decide to come and visit Mexico.

  Jose Diaz-Balart

  Thinking, Cities, Transition

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

  Paulina Rubio

  Cities, Mexico, Born

  "Paulina Rubio beauty without borders". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.

  Louis C. K.

  Memories, Cities, Feelings

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

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• For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earthquakes, Cities, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.

  Louis C. K.

  New York, Cities, Pussy

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• [After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.

  Dennis Hopper

  Couple, Japan, Years

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• Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Dirty, Thinking

  "Larry Summers’ War Against the Earth" by Jim Vallette, www.counterpunch.org. June 15, 1999.

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• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Jobs, Cities, Mexico

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• Here's what I was thinking about:1.Who the new threat was 2.The air show in Mexico City 3.How to get Total to quit milking his injury, because enough was enough 4. My mom and Half sister Ella 5.Fang 6.Fang 7.Fang

  James Patterson

  Mom, Thinking, Air

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• You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

  Dennis Hopper

  Running, Airports, Cities

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• It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

  Monte Irvin

  Running, Home, Mvp

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