Quotes by Alma Guillermoprieto - Page 1

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Happiness
Smile
Joy
Laughter
No Point
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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Myth
Want
Young
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You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Three
Two
Years
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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Concrete
Details
May
Mind
Detail
Fixated
Practical
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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Doe
Given
Language
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An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Enemy
Essentials
Magic
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Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Wise
Fool
Wise Sayings
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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Jobs
Cities
Construction
Mexico
Mexico City
Paid
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
California
Next
One Day
Wonder
Mexicans
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For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Kids
Delinquency
Way
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So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Citizens
House
Manhattan
Mexican
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Citizen
New Yorker
Yorker
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I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Food
Cooking
Fun
Restaurants
Love Food Cooking
Although
Cook
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Produce
Talking
Thinking
Two
Me People Language
Assume
Different Personalities
Inevitably
Personalities
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Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Long
Looking Back
Memories
Observant
Writing
Closely
Discovered
Reporter
Memory
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I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Care
Efficient
Trying
Writing
Good Way Know
Try
Reporter
Fact
Intensely
Places
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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Home
Carpentry
Dishes
Factories
Garden
Mexican
Millions
Restaurants
Shops
Anywhere
Border
Chances
Cross
Gardens
Homes
Restaurant
Washed
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Childhood
Cuban
Daily News
Havana
Long
News
Revolution
Thinking
Traveled
Years
Daily
Extremely
Realized
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The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
America
Colombia
Income
Latin
Latin America
Years
Tax
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Unlike
Solid
Primarily
Provide
Survive
Tax Money
To Survive
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Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy
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Democracy
Healthy
Integrity
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Gloves
Language
Skills
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I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Food
Real
Thinking
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