Quotes by Mexican Authors

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

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Dance, Smile

"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."

Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist

Life, Fact, Years

"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

Software, Today, Writing

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

Ambition, Feet

"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."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

Now, Reason, Talk, Today

"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."

Hernando Cortez, Mexican Explorer

Love, Travel, Hate

"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance."

Luis Miguel, Mexican Musician

Sanity,

"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Waiting, Years

"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."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

Love, Discipline, Freedom, Parents

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

Work, Will

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet

Sense, Eyes

"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

Juan Rulfo, Mexican Novelist

Personal Development, Misery, Talking

"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially."

Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman

Change, Faces, Help, Will

"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Now,

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe."

Jose C. Orozco, Mexican Muralist

Cities, Nations, Universe

"There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."

Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman

Man, Men, Women, Work, Willpower

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet

Love, Being, Succeed, Surrender

"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Love, First

"I love you more than my own skin."

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

Love, Skin

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

Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist

Society, Years

"At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors."

Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman

Politics, End, Will

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

Luis Bunuel, Mexican Director

Imagination, People, Chance, Fact

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Movies,

"If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom."

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican Politician

Change, People, Bosses, Nothing

"Globalization is a fact of economic life."

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican Statesman

Life, Fact, Globalization

"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."

Luis Barragan, Mexican Architect

Beauty, Oracle

"Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country."

Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman

Change, Being, Country, Will

"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Acting, Heaven, Hell, Writing

"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."

Luis Bunuel, Mexican Director

Doubt, Luck

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexican Author

Love, Power, Truth, Direction

"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Experience, Open

"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."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Beauty, People, Eye

"We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime."

Vicente Fox, Mexican Statesman

Nation, Countries, Crime, Drugs, Effort

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

Emotion, Feeling, Now

"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."

Ricardo Montalban, Mexican Actor

Actor, Freedom, Television

"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

First, Quarrel

"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."

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

Thought, Act, End, Profession

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

Pancho Villa, Mexican Activist

Death, End

"Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?"

Gloria Trevi, Mexican Musician

Country, Problems, University

"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

"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."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

Money,

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexican Author

Life, Art, Dream, Artist

"I was in love once, and it was terrible."

Gloria Trevi, Mexican Musician

Love,

"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

Love, Father, Children

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Mexican Author

Life, Courage, Agreement, Drama

"I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Woman, Women, Man

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."

Hernando Cortez, Mexican Explorer

Night,

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

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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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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."

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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

​

"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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"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."

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"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance."

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"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."

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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."

​

"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."

​

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

​

"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

​

"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially."

​

"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."

​

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe."

​

"There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."

​

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

​

"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."

​

"I love you more than my own skin."

​

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

​

"At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors."

​

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

​

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."

​

"If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom."

​

"Globalization is a fact of economic life."

​

"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all."

​

"Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country."

​

"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."

​

"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."

​

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

​

"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do."

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"I've never worked with the Java community."

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"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

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"It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET."

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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."

​

"We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime."

​

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."

​

"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."

​

"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that."

​

"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."