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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

I love having critics for breakfast.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Breakfast Critics Having I Love

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

Work Live Music Money Parents Doing

I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it's certainly there. There's gay metalheads all over the world.

Music World Think Picture Gay Over

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Singing Lost Drummer Legs Singer

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Michelle Bachelet

Women Today World Working Essential

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael LeBoeuf

Time Focus Ideas Think Thought You

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

Kind Insult Against Prophet Our Any

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

Food Environmental Grow Way Cause

I drove the Ford Ranger until probably five years after college, till about 2001, when I was almost 30.

College Years Five Almost Until

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

Fun Practice Tough Feet Hurt End

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Power Value Same Cannot Far Systems

I had to realize that if I didn't really love who I was, and if I couldn't appreciate this - my body - as my moneymaker, then I wasn't going to make any money.

Love Money Appreciate Body Realize

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

You More Always Maine Out Little

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