Mexico Quotes - Page 18

• The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neighbors, and the only hard food to get in America is true Mexican. It's impossible to find, even in L.A. Why is that?

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, America, Mexican

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• When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

  Desi Arnaz

  Hawaii, Sun, Fisherman

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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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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• Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.

  Chelsea Handler

  Addiction, Drug, Overcoming

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• I met my first midget in Mexico, and he was a waiter with a sombrero on his head, filled with chips and salsa. Like I was gonna let that guy get away - I don't think so.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Guy, Firsts

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• The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

  Drake Bell

  Night, Long, Fans

  "Drake Bell Dishes On His New Album!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!

  Christopher Titus

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "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 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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• 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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• My total focus was on building up our military, building up our strength, building up our borders, making sure that China, Japan, Mexico, both at the border and in trade, no longer takes advantage of our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Japan

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Drug, Police

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Quality, Maintaining

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism. There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.

  Bocafloja

  Exercise, Laughing, Racism

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

  Bocafloja

  Latin, Race, White

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  Bette Ford

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Long, Keystone Pipeline

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