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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: mexican
Birth: November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Topics

Life History Experience Opportunities

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Me Influence Always Been Huge

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

Jeannette Rankin

Women War Mind End American Enough

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Language English Language Immigrant

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Childhood Ending America Acting Want

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Technology Innovation Science New

Hillary Clinton cannot be the president of the United States.

President United Cannot United States

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Freedom Voting Media Important

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

Think You Place Spirits Accommodate

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

Butterfly Purpose Me World Small

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Know Now Strike Terrorism Inside

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

People Action Understanding Customer

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Work Business Wisdom Age Time Woman

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