Ilan Stavans Quotes

There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

Ilan Stavans

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: April 7, 1961

Topics

InternetAmericanMiamiFinding

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Joe Elliott

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Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

Ann McLane Kuster

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I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Yahoo! has clearly established itself as the go-to destination for big events and breaking news, and we are focused on providing the best digital canvas for the world's greatest storytellers to create, develop and showcase their visions.

Ross Levinsohn

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You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

Martin Parr

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If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here.

Lizz Wright

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I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

Diego Luna

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The great comics can fall on their faces, but then they can say, 'Oh, baby, you're the greatest.' They show their heart and their vulnerability.

Chris Farley

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brian Eno

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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

Chuck Klosterman

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