Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes

#1. What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

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#2. Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

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#3. You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

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#4. An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

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#5. There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

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#6. Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

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#7. A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

Neal Stephenson

#8. Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

Billie Holiday

#9. The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

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#10. For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

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#11. So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

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#12. Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy

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#13. I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

Stephen Rodrick

#14. I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

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#15. Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'

Demetri Martin

#16. 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.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#17. A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans ... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

Georges Duhamel

#18. Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#19. There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

Shelley Berkley

#20. And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

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#21. One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

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#22. That motherfucker hurt our coya, you son of a bitch, and if you're going to kill anyone, put the gun to your head first.(less)

Lora Leigh

#23. 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.

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#24. If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

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#25. I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

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#26. There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

Allison Mack

#27. 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.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#28. A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale

#29. The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Alma Guillermoprieto

#30. She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.

Lorrie Moore