Mexico Quotes - Page 13

• Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

  Adam Duritz

  Girl, Bottles, Littles

  "Song: 'Holiday in Spain'". 2002.

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Hard Work, Grandmother, Intelligent

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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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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• I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

  Susana Martinez

  Father, Grandmother, Said

  "AP Exclusive: NM gov.'s grandfather was US citizen". www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2012.

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• New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

  Susana Martinez

  Environment, New Mexico

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• You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Country, Cities, America

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• In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Cover Ups, Want, Rooms

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• There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Opportunity, Numbers, Employment

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• Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Dollars, Productions

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• We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Real, Party, Practice

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• Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Country, Taken, Care

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• The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

  Vicente Fox

  Real, Winner, Economy

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• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  Vicente Fox

  Population, Different, Income

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• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  Vicente Fox

  Believe, Done, World

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• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  Vicente Fox

  America, United States, Canada

  "Interview With Mexican President Vicente Fox". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

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• The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.

  David Rockwell

  Memories, Inspiration, Passion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Wish, Want

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  Mo Rocca

  Song, Rain, Laughing

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• I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Islands, Florida

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.391

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• Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann

  Country, Blue, Japan

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• George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick
  prizes would fall out of him.

  Argus Hamilton

  Fall, Sticks, Prize

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• I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

  Tom Ford

  Horse, Cities, Space

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• If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Home, Vegetables

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