Mexico Quotes - Page 17

• I have a lot of respect for Mexico.

  Nonito Donaire

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• I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Government, Tv Shows, Survival

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• I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

  Demian Bichir

  Brother, Play, Lucky

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• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Groups, Film, Clique

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Usa, Canada

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• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Country, Mean, Texas

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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  M. Ward

  Grandparent, Mexican, Grew Up

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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

  Charles Portis

  Rocks, Progress, President

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• Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Turkeys, Australia, People

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• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Home, Nashville, Two

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ecosystems, Together, Three

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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.

  Hermann Goring

  California, Expansion, United States

  At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.

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• I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

  Mika

  Girl, Running, Song

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• It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Hot, Would Be, Littles

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• I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart

  Will Rogers

  Crazy, Inspiration, Heart

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• Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, America

  The third and final presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry, www.washingtonpost.com. October 13, 2004.

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• We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, People, Pressure

  "Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2007.

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• You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

  David Letterman

  Oil, Bird, Bigs

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Texas

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• The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Country, Technology, Important

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• There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

  Steve Martin

  Cat, Animal, Thinking

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