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

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Youth, Myth, Want

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

Society, Language

"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."

People, Language, Talking

"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."

Memory, Writing

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

Society, Years

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

Dance, Smile

"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."

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

Detail, May, Mind

"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."

Money, America, Being, Tax

"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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"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."

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"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."

Logan P. Smith, American Writer

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"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young."

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

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