Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Clark

Had it been up to the Mexican authorities, this would never have happened.

Salma Hayek

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Salma Hayek

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

William T. Vollmann

We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."

William T. Vollmann

There are parts of L.A. that feel very, very Mexican, and there are weird little enclaves of Northside in Mexico - Cancún for instance. So what is a border?

Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Kuno Becker

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

Kirby Jones

It's outrageous that I, as an American citizen, can't go and talk to someone on Mexican soil.

Ewan McGregor

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

James Bennetts

I think what we're doing is going back to the way things were before Independence Air.

Willard Gaylin

All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

William Barclay

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

Voltaire

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Voltaire

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Walter Gilbert

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Treat Williams

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Rufus Choate

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Robert Crandall

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Rose Kennedy

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Ronan Farrow

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

Tyler Cowen

In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Troy Polamalu

Material things aren't important to me.

Richard D. Zanuck

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Regis McKenna

Speed has become an important element of strategy.