Mexico Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Country, Technology, Important

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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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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  New York, Discovery, Boston

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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• There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

  Steve Martin

  Cat, Animal, Thinking

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• Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

  Charles Portis

  Rocks, Progress, President

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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  M. Ward

  Grandparent, Mexican, Grew Up

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• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Country, Mean, Texas

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Groups, Film, Clique

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

  Demian Bichir

  Brother, Play, Lucky

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• I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Government, Tv Shows, Survival

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• I have a lot of respect for Mexico.

  Nonito Donaire

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• I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

  Eric Dickerson

  Golf, Play, Guy

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Oklahoma, Texas, House

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• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  Vicente Fox

  Territory

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• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, People, Pressure

  "Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2007.

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