Mexican Quotes - Page 14

• Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but..." I say, "I'm not racist, but you look great today." They say, "That wasn't racist at all." I said, "I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Typical, Looks

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• I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

  Brian Eno

  Nice, Track, Remember

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

  Biloine W. Young

  Air, Giants, Looks

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• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  Adam Carolla

  Sorry, Night, Giving

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• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  Tamala Jones

  People, Cheese, Gumbo

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• Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

  Wendy Williams

  Cutting, Etcetera, Shells

  Source: aalbc.com

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• European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, "Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US. I, the European, am telling you. I am your political guide, your icon, your mentor for political references. I am telling you that you should support the relevant causes."

  Bocafloja

  Icons, Support, Political

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.

  Bocafloja

  Strong, Thinking, Average

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Traps

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• We're Mexican not Mexican't!

  George Lopez

  "Beverly Hills Chihuahua". Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 2008.

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• Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.

  Dave Attell

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

  David Spade

  Careers, Calling, Today

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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• I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

  Guy Maddin

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

  Dolly Parton

  Italian, Restaurants, Type

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• Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with the distance's comfort or the soft indifference you derive from concentrating on the quality of the framing, the use of light and shadows, the successful composition. Force these images to bring you to the Mexican Southeast, to history, to the struggle, to this taking sides, to choose a faction.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Sweet, Distance, Struggle

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• What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate - adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey's cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat.

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley

  Sweet, Love Is, Chocolate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.

  Max Pam

  Photography, Teacher, Book

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• Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Daughter, Lying, Healthy

  "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. October 14, 2002.

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• I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Ugly Things, Racist, Harsh

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• It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

  Steven Michael Quezada

  Tough

  "'Breaking Bad's' Gomez on 'Ozymandias': At Least 'I Didn't Get Melted in Acid' (Q&A)". Interview with Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2013.

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• When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.

  Amber Rose

  Fall, Looks, Pieces

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• Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Gabriel, Students, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.

  Todd Starnes

  Opportunity, Borders, Cows

  "Facebook removes my post about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy" by Todd Starnes, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2014.

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