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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."
"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump."
"In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money."
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays."
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
"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."
"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
"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."
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."
"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
"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."
"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
"All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects."
"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"
"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."
"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
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