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Carlos Fuentes Quotes

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Carlos Fuentes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Prison Human Rights Human Rights

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

John Oliver

Heart Find Veterans Talk Hard Close

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

John Henry Newman

War Done Things May Laws Warfare

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Ann Beattie

Women Men More Against Women Are

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Life Live Social Media Media Farm

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

Soledad O'Brien

Investing Mothers Move Because

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

Lleyton Hewitt

Time Win Distance Go Three Everyone

The judiciary wields enormous power but is utterly mysterious to most Americans. People know more about 'American Idol' judges than Supreme Court judges. Done right, social media is a high-octane tool to boost civic awareness.

Don Willett

Power Social Media People American

I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.

Johnny Mathis

Week Go Trials Same Invitation Big

Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

Drew Barrymore

Life Work Day School Consistency

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith

Life Death Game Problems You Dead

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Brian Eno

Life People Think Musicians You Own

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

Bob Seger

Time People Saying Thought Giving