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Quotes by Mexican Authors

"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."
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Luis Bunuel
"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."
"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."
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Anthony Quinn
"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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Pancho Villa
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy."
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Gloria Trevi
"A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy."
"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."
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Luis Miguel
"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."
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"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
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Anthony Quinn
"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
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"We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines."
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Jose C. Orozco
"We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines."
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
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Miguel de Icaza
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
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Frida Kahlo
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
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Luis Barragan
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"My painting carries with it the message of pain."
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Frida Kahlo
"My painting carries with it the message of pain."
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"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
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Ricardo Montalban
"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
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Miguel de Icaza
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
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Miguel de Icaza
"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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Anthony Quinn
"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
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Octavio Paz
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
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"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
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Salma Hayek
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
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"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
"I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."
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Diego Rivera
"I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."
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"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
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Salma Hayek
"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
Now,
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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
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Jose C. Orozco
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
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"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
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Ricardo Montalban
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."
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Luis Bunuel
"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."
"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
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Salma Hayek
"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
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"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."
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Luis Barragan
"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
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Miguel Angel Ruiz
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
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Anthony Quinn
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
Now,
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"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
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Anthony Quinn
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
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Carlos Fuentes
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."
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Carlos Santana
"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
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Salma Hayek
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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Miguel de Icaza
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."
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Carlos Santana
"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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Luis Barragan
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
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Carlos Santana
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
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Miguel de Icaza
"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."
"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."
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Carlos Santana
"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk."
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Anthony Quinn
"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk."
"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."
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Hernando Cortez
"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."
"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
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Octavio Paz
"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."
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Luis Bunuel
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."
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"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
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Ricardo Montalban
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
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Paul Rodriguez
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
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Octavio Paz
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
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"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
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Carlos Santana
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun."
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Salma Hayek
"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun."
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"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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Salma Hayek
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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