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Carlos Fuentes

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ALVARO ENRIGUE I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Ll...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Me...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I'm in deep shit Alex, 'cause I think I'd like nothin' better than to wake up with her every mornin'...
SIMONE ELKELES -You think I’ve got a big ego and an attitude problem?
-I don’t think you do, Carlos. I kno...
SIMONE ELKELES There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature...
KHALED HOSSEINI Unfaßbar das erste Tier, das von einem anderen träumte. Ungeheuerlich das erste Wirbeltier, dem es...
CARLOS FUENTES My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
M. WARD At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that litera...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU [T]he Mexican government is making billions of dollars every year from illegal aliens who enter the ...
HOWARD KALOOGIAN There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots...
DANA SPIOTTA There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They&...
LEONARD COHEN Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.
CANDACE C. BOWEN Der Autor muß eine Fülle von Varitionen über das ausgewählte Thema bieten, die Entscheidungsmög...
CARLOS FUENTES La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentació...
CARLOS FUENTES Hay que morir antes de renacer.
CARLOS FUENTES I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that c...
SIMONE ELKELES The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because ...
E. L. DOCTOROW It's a family place, and it's also an authentic restaurant. There are Mexican cooks; it's a little M...
LUIS CRUZ It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward t...
NATALIE GULBIS There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the sol...
MARTIN REES Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for C...
LAURA HADDOCK I'm glad this whole success thing is happening now. I can't even imagine a 23-year-old Lesli...
LESLIE JONES What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Ci...
KATEE SACKHOFF What happens when I break one of your fuckin’ rules?
SIMONE ELKELES A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy
fo...
SIMONE ELKELES He opens his window and motions for me to open mine. When I do, he tries to say something. His voice...
SIMONE ELKELES Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now wi...
ADRIAN GRENIER Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if ...
BRENDAN IRIBE I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of yo...
FRANJO TUDJMAN A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn'...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary o...
DAVID WONG Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.
JASPER CARROTT There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that t...
PAT CONROY Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ...
CYNTHIA KENYON It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they ...
JANET MCTEER I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there...
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers...
ELMORE LEONARD Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. ...
CARLOS FUENTES Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long we...
RICK MORANIS I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#...
NELSON ALGREN Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, h...
SIMONE ELKELES Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
PHILIP ROTH I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'F...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that ther...
JOHN O'HARA Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it...
ROBERT PLANT If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where t...
FELICITY JONES An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendo...
JACK BLACK This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn...
A. P. HERBERT There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there...
JOHNNY BALL There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
NALINI NADKARNI Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?
SIMONE ELKELES Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.
“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego ...
SIMONE ELKELES K,
the lady at the store said yellow means friendship and red means love. The rosary is the onl...
SIMONE ELKELES That’s not the only reason I’m stayin’, chica. I can’t leave you any more than I could walk<...
SIMONE ELKELES Just so you know, I’m goin’ to enlist.”
“I’m proud of you. But why?”
I groan a...
SIMONE ELKELES Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks.
Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood b...
SIMONE ELKELES Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.
SIMONE ELKELES We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
G. WILLOW WILSON Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and En...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn'...
JAMES CAAN I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexica...
JOE ARPAIO I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would ...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that&...
SUSAN POWTER I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't grea...
IDINA MENZEL Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddle...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing...
M. J. ROSE Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Na...
DENIS LEARY ...there are a lot of successful writers who never even see their work done.
DAVID HOWARD They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that ...
DONALD JUDD Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
EDDIE KAYE THOMAS I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a w...
DANA STABENOW My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't ge...
CALVIN TRILLIN Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are ann...
BRUCE VILANCH Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
JULIANNA MARGULIES I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow...
ROD MCKUEN If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. ...
ADAM MCKAY Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
CAMILLA LUDDINGTON There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I ...
KIM YOUNG-HA Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holm...
NATALIE DORMER We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot...
CAMERON RUSSELL First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an...
CHARLES S. DUTTON I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating ar...
CHER I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bit...
JIM CRACE It was incredible to see the reception we received in my hometown of Mexico City. The media in Mexic...
MARIO DOMINGUEZ Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
MAURICE CHEVALIER There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
CANELO ALVAREZ Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuis...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the whi...
CARLOS FUENTES My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is n...
CARLOS FUENTES What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer al...
CARLOS FUENTES There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we mu...
CARLOS FUENTES Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: o...
CARLOS FUENTES I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.
CARLOS FUENTES This kid, in club, competed a triple full. She has room to grow. It's exciting to see. She's just hi...
CARLOS FUENTES Human kind will prevail. And it will prevail because, in spite of the reaction of history, novels te...
CARLOS FUENTES She's just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. Th...
CARLOS FUENTES It was pretty impressive to score that high without our top individual. The rest of the girls really...
CARLOS FUENTES If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege...
CARLOS FUENTES Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fe...
CARLOS FUENTES Writing is a struggle against silence.
CARLOS FUENTES No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been broug...
CARLOS FUENTES The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the pheno...
CARLOS FUENTES They were determined. I tell them that beam, more than anything, is just mental. It's just a matter ...
CARLOS FUENTES Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...
CARLOS FUENTES Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
CARLOS FUENTES — ¿Y por qué no vives siempre con nosotros como antes, mamacita?
— Porque ahora tu mamaci...
CARLOS FUENTES all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel wo...
CARLOS FUENTES There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is a...
CARLOS FUENTES He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n...
CARLOS FUENTES I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je j...
CARLOS FUENTES - No hace falta ir a la Villa, porque la madrecita santa anda suelta por todos lados
CARLOS FUENTES You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
CARLOS FUENTES Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pue...
CARLOS FUENTES Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...
CARLOS FUENTES Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal ord...
CARLOS FUENTES The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest ...
CARLOS FUENTES The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...
CARLOS FUENTES Unfaßbar das erste Tier, das von einem anderen träumte. Ungeheuerlich das erste Wirbeltier, dem es...
CARLOS FUENTES Der Autor muß eine Fülle von Varitionen über das ausgewählte Thema bieten, die Entscheidungsmög...
CARLOS FUENTES La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentació...
CARLOS FUENTES Hay que morir antes de renacer.
CARLOS FUENTES Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. ...
CARLOS FUENTES The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) i...
CARLOS FUENTES I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
CARLOS FUENTES I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
CARLOS FUENTES I'm a writer, not a genre.
CARLOS FUENTES Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
CARLOS FUENTES I have no literary fears.
CARLOS FUENTES Work is what saves you.
CARLOS FUENTES Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
CARLOS FUENTES The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
CARLOS FUENTES I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
CARLOS FUENTES I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
CARLOS FUENTES The real bombs are my books, not me.
CARLOS FUENTES Don't classify me, read me.
CARLOS FUENTES Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
CARLOS FUENTES I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
CARLOS FUENTES I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.&...
CARLOS FUENTES In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
CARLOS FUENTES Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX -...
VIC FUENTES I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
VIC FUENTES Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becom...
VIC FUENTES It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird thin...
VIC FUENTES When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with ...
VIC FUENTES Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't co...
VIC FUENTES And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my c...
DAISY FUENTES I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
DAISY FUENTES TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.
DAISY FUENTES I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
DAISY FUENTES I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. ...
DAISY FUENTES When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch unti...
DAISY FUENTES I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job w...
DAISY FUENTES To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
DAISY FUENTES I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. The...
DAISY FUENTES I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I wa...
DAISY FUENTES You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to s...
DAISY FUENTES It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can ...
DAISY FUENTES I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
DAISY FUENTES Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be...
DAISY FUENTES I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
DAISY FUENTES I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
DAISY FUENTES You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men...
DAISY FUENTES We hope to make a difference in setting a challenge goal for the nation of eliminating suffering and...
BEA FUENTES We understand some of the things cancer patients go through and the prostheses are so expensive. Tha...
BEA FUENTES The event is the ACS grassroots program celebrating cancer survivorship and empowering survivors and...
BEA FUENTES I think it's very, very important to have the office and offer free supplies to cancer patients. In ...
BEA FUENTES (The House bill) is truly a violation of people's civil rights. People just want to be united with t...
ANGEL FUENTES We just want to send a clear message to our Congress and Senate that they really have to rework the ...
ANGEL FUENTES You know you have our support
ANGEL FUENTES No one from the administration has made such an effort
ANGEL FUENTES We have really put in a lot of our time on this,
ANGEL FUENTES But it's not a reflection on City Council, ... We have to put good people to work for the court. It'...
ANGEL FUENTES I just want to be a little better than last year. When you are closing you don't have much of a say,...
BRIAN FUENTES That was a big year for me last year. It's probably the reason I have the opportunity to do this now...
BRIAN FUENTES I just kind of forgot about it until it first started coming up in the press in November.
BRIAN FUENTES It's nice that toward the end of the game, we've got that stability down there. Fortunately, Cortes ...
BRIAN FUENTES I'd be lying if I said I was not thinking about (the Giants game) when I woke up (Monday) morning. U...
BRIAN FUENTES That was unfortunate for Zach. He was a guy that had some issues earlier and was starting to come ba...
BRIAN FUENTES It feels like we're winning a ton now. It feels like a lot more, even though it's only .500.
BRIAN FUENTES We're going in guns blazing. We're the team everybody wants to knock off.
BRIAN FUENTES At this point, nobody on our side is surprised by what he does. The guys in the other dugout are pro...
BRIAN FUENTES Unfortunately I wasn't able to hold the lead. But Scott did once we scored again, so that's awesome.
BRIAN FUENTES They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.
TITO FUENTES Women want to look sexy. They want to look stylish, and there's no reason why you can't be just as s...
DAISY FUENTES It's an opportunity to represent Merced as well. Everybody is real proud of me being a local guy and...
BRIAN FUENTES I would not say I was surprised with the success I had. I have worked hard and I expect to do well. ...
BRIAN FUENTES He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get hi...
QUINTEN FUENTES It was a little surreal that the bleeding never stopped.
BRIAN FUENTES I go to the stores a lot and I talk to my customers a lot and the biggest demand was for petite and ...
DAISY FUENTES I decided to make news, not give it.
DAISY FUENTES I need three more guys. I can't find them.
JOE FUENTES I think based on all the comments we've heard, we've reached a good compromise. We've split the baby...
JOE FUENTES I don't understand why that couldn't have been presented today, if they're available.
JOE FUENTES We came out trying to get as many as we could to state. We wanted to get everybody to place, and we ...
QUINTEN FUENTES As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
WENDY CARLOS I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
CARLOS SANTANA Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE We continue to be bullish on China.
CARLOS GHOSN First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou...
CARLOS SLIM It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you ar...
CARLOS SLIM My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co...
CARLOS SLIM We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the ...
CARLOS SLIM You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment....
CARLOS SLIM In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and...
CARLOS SLIM If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more...
CARLOS SLIM We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
CARLOS SLIM Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the...
CARLOS SLIM There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
CARLOS SLIM When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
CARLOS SLIM The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect...
CARLOS SLIM If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
CARLOS SLIM How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of al...
CARLOS SLIM Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sp...
CARLOS SLIM I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping other...
CARLOS SLIM At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c...
CARLOS SLIM You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are ...
CARLOS SLIM You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technolog...
CARLOS SLIM You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
CARLOS SLIM It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give bette...
CARLOS SLIM The biggest things in life are not materials.
CARLOS SLIM The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t...
CARLOS SANTANA You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, beca...
CARLOS SANTANA First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to...
CARLOS SANTANA Stay in your heart.
CARLOS SANTANA I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring...
CARLOS SANTANA I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
CARLOS SANTANA The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
CARLOS SANTANA I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated ...
CARLOS SANTANA My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, la...
CARLOS SANTANA There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
CARLOS SANTANA When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and ...
CARLOS SANTANA My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a ...
CARLOS SANTANA Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
CARLOS SANTANA The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an...
CARLOS SANTANA Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now...
CARLOS SANTANA I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ...
CARLOS SANTANA Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smili...
CARLOS SANTANA Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
CARLOS SANTANA There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with ...
CARLOS SANTANA I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day...
CARLOS PONCE Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi...
CARLOS PONCE I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
CARLOS PONCE I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
CARLOS PONCE I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We'...
CARLOS PONCE I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
CARLOS PONCE I have reached a limit in my work.
CARLOS MESA I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'...
CARLOS MESA My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed...
CARLOS MESA I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
CARLOS MESA I want Bolivians to support their president.
CARLOS MESA We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel commi...
CARLOS MESA Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
CARLOS MESA The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizi...
CARLOS MESA Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
CARLOS MESA There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc...
CARLOS GHOSN Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of product...
CARLOS GHOSN In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no...
CARLOS GHOSN I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ...
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