Mexico Quotes

• In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

  Len Deighton

  Funny, Air, Lenses

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• When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Country, Teenager, Video

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.

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• I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

  Campbell Scott

  Crazy, Years, Interesting

  "Campbell Scott on going Off the Map". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 10, 2005.

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• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

  Herb Alpert

  Taken, Sound, Spirit

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• What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

  Alice Cooper

  Golf, Play, Scotland

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Rocks, Sea, Levels

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27

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• A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

  Jim Caviezel

  Thank You, Hands, Film

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• They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

  Erik Estrada

  Would Be, Lines, Soap

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• Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

  Joe Baca

  Years, Independence, Cinco De Mayo

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• You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

  Jennifer Esposito

  Mother, Father, Giving

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• I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

  Vicente Fox

  Thinking, Usa, Important

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• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Sydney Pollack

  Japan, Europe, Yugoslavia

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Mexican Border, Southern

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Thinking, People, Boss

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• But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Years, People

  "Sens. Reed, Cornyn Talk 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Immigration Reform and Afghanistan". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  Salma Hayek

  Hollywood, Driving, Ability

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• Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Memories, Safety, Childhood

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• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

  Norman Spinrad

  Manipulation, Myth, Archetype

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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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• We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Country, Land, Race

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.34

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• I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

  Placido Domingo

  Years, Cities, Two

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• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Roger Wicker

  Country, School, Safety

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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