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Quotes by Mexican Authors

"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."
"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."
"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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"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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"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."
"In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education."
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
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Salma Hayek
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."
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Miguel de Icaza
"We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux."
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
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Carlos Santana
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
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Guillermo del Toro
"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old."
Old,
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"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
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Salma Hayek
"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
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"The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations."
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Carlos Salinas
"The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations."
"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things."
"Deserve your dream."
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Octavio Paz
"Deserve your dream."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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Frida Kahlo
"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
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Guillermo del Toro
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
"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."
"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
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Salma Hayek
"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
"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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"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 like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
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Guillermo del Toro
"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
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Guillermo del Toro
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
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Salma Hayek
"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
"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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"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
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Miguel de Icaza
"In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform."
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
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Anthony Quinn
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
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"In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum."
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Anthony Quinn
"In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum."
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
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Anthony Quinn
"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids."
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"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
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Guillermo del Toro
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."
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Gael Garcia Bernal
"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."
"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."
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Salma Hayek
"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."
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"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
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Ricardo Montalban
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."
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Miguel de Icaza
"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."
"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 was in love once, and it was terrible."
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Gloria Trevi
"I was in love once, and it was terrible."
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"I love the stage."
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Anthony Quinn
"I love the stage."
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"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."
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Miguel de Icaza
"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there."
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"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."
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Gloria Trevi
"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."
Art,
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"Thank God I'm an atheist."
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Luis Bunuel
"Thank God I'm an atheist."
God,
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"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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"I didn't intend to become an actor."
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Anthony Quinn
"I didn't intend to become an actor."
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"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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"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."
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Miguel de Icaza
"With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time."
"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
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Anthony Quinn
"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
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Ricardo Montalban
"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"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."
"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
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Anthony Quinn
"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
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