Guatemala Quotes - Page 2

• I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Country, Trying, Use

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.

  Pico Iyer

  Dream, Song, Real

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Grief, People, Orphan

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.278, Verso Books

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• Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

  Otto Perez Molina

  War, Decision, Drug

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• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  Adam Braun

  Taken, Long, People

  "Fathers & Sons". The Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.

  George Carlin

  Fruit, Tropical, Third Grade

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

  Chris Hedges

  Sports, Children, Soldier

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  David Suzuki

  Country, Rights, Sri Lanka

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• If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.

  Jack Davenport

  Dwarves, Play, People

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• I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.

  Henry Rollins

  Dog, People, Vietnam

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?

  Dhani Jones

  Coed, Incredibles

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• First, undoubtedly, there are some people who are coming from Cuba who immediately, or from any other country, benefit. But, what is the difference between that and someone who is coming from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, etc.? That is, we are simply going to say that someone who comes from another country to the United States - the first five years they're here - they don't qualify for federal benefits. They may benefit from local benefits, state benefits. Those decisions belong to other jurisdictions.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Years, Differences

  Source: www.univision.com

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