Carlos Fuentes quote: "Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pues de que te llaman ya ni quien te detenga."

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

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

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mention...
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 ...
CARLOS GHOSN

Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pues de que te llaman ya ni quien te detenga.

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Y luego el patecal ése, que no te pudo salvar con sus medicinas, aunque tú ni las necesitabas, pues de que te llaman ya ni quien te detenga.

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