Mexico Quotes - Page 8

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Lew Wallace

Failing, Elsewhere, Calculations

Lew Wallace (1969). “Lew Wallace; an Autobiography”

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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

Samuel Eliot Morison

Strong, War, Discovery

Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.

Natalie Goldberg

Dream, Writing, Black And White

Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

Robert Frost

Country, Business, Ocean

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What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernesto Zedillo

Numbers, Issues, What If

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Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Icons, Borders, Generations

"Chespirito, the Mexican comedian who inspired Simpsons character, dies at 85" by Andrew Johnson, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

Paddy Ashdown

Brother, Fire, Airports

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As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys.

Jack Donovan

Law, People, Guy

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Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of a decidedly pro-American crowd for both Mexico games, and to win them both 2-0, is fantastic for everybody.

Kasey Keller

Home, Winning, Games

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What we do every day - whether you live in
Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
can have a very negative impact on
an entire way of life for an entire people
far away from that source

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Impact, Russia, People

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According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy on American citizens, they feel they have to spy on FUTURE American citizens as well.

Jay Leno

Phones, Nsa, People

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According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

Jay Leno

Country, Believe, Moving

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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

Brother, Wall, Boys

"War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you don't drink the water. You go to any diner here, who brings you the water? It's a mystery.

Ted Alexandro

Funny, Water, Diners

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Mexico extends beyond its borders.

Vicente Fox

Political, Immigration, Borders

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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

Zack de la Rocha

Military, Artist, Government

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Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

Jay Leno

Running, Water, Car

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Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

Oprah Winfrey

Special, Six, Needs

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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

Billy Connolly

Funny, Travel, Differences

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I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Greg Kinnear

Cities, Mexico City

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Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

Herman Melville

Texas, Sea, Two

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.70, Velvet Element Books

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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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New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Heather Wilson

Past, Swings, States

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New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.

Tom Udall

Men, Brave, Dedicated

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The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

Tony Hayward

Ocean, Oil, Water

"BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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