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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Understanding Bad Others United

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Wisdom Age Power Control You Early

Blockchain is really exciting technology because it's actually providing both transparency but also agility in a contractual relationship that any organization should have.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Technology Relationship Organization

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

Dance Me Mom Young Classes Really

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

People Better Possibilities Powerful

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

John Shelby Spong

God I Can Never Presence Define

For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.

Spring Artist Spirit Inspired Our

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

Growth Working Together Together

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

Dance Well Sing Too

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Road House My Own Own Used Stuff

In terms of directing a feature, I'd want the story to be right - you know, it's a year of your life, and you have to be focused on one thing, so I want it to be a story that I really, really care about and will enjoy making.

Life Story Care Enjoy Year You

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Power Democracy Media Now Check Our

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

Purpose Fun Beyond Serve Many Joys

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