Mexico Quotes - Page 16

• Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

  Graham Greene

  Race, Violence, Favour

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.

  Diego Boneta

  Art, New York, Cities

  The Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. October 6, 2015.

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• I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.

  Kate del Castillo

  Diversity, Support, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.

  Kate del Castillo

  Usa, Interesting, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Growth, Economic

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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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• I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.

  Ruben Gallego

  Country, Opportunity, Parent

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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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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• I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Land

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

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• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  Val Kilmer

  Hard Work, Home, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I've just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico, a man I like and respect very much. And a man who truly loves his country, Mexico.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Men, Special

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 01, 2016.

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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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• 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, Mexican, Missing

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• The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.

  Felipe Esparza

  War, Iraq, Want

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• I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.

  Felipe Esparza

  Comedian, Comedy, Translate

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• I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!

  Felipe Esparza

  Sibling, Real, Kids

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• There's no other place I'd rather have it than here in Mexico. It's a race track that I was looking forward to going to from the time we were here last year. This track just fits my driving style perfectly.

  Denny Hamlin

  Race, Years, Track

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• If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

  Lola Alvarez Bravo

  Shows, Ifs, Values

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• My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

  LIZ

  Mom, Good Luck, Rocks

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• Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Art, Taken, School

  Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture

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• I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Trying, Way, Cameras

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