Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: December 2, 1949 - June 5, 2005

Topics

PoliticalUnderstandingBackCountry

One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.

Joe Lonsdale

LifeMy LifeIntellectualInfluences

I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.

Michael Bisping

WorkWorldChampionFirstAlways

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

Tom King

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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

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I knew that we would have a movie about us one day.

Rozonda Thomas

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I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

Michiel Huisman

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I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

David Walliams

FearMyselfThoughtsStartThink

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Clifton Fadiman

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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Bobby McFerrin

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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

Annie Leibovitz

TiredYouPicturesSayGetAsking

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

Philippa Gregory

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We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.

Reuven Rivlin

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