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title: "1 Talking Think Quotes By Alma Guillermoprieto"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/talking-in-one-language-and-talking-in-another-i-think-inevitably/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

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## More by Alma Guillermoprieto

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/i-think-the-great-mexican-cuisine-is-dying-because-there-are-fast/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/the-left-is-being-funded-primarily-by-the-drug-traffickers-who/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/one-does-after-all-take-on-many-of-the-givens-of-a-society-when-one/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/for-the-kids-who-in-their-lives-have-never-known-the-slightest-power/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/an-essential-part-of-the-magic-involves-turning-everyone-into-an/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/well-one-of-the-things-i-discovered-in-the-course-of-looking-back-and/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/investigative-reporting-is-the-bone-structure-without-which-the/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/there-is-no-point-to-samba-if-it-doesn-t-make-you-smile/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/if-you-re-going-to-be-a-myth-or-want-to-be-a-myth-you-d-better-die/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/i-realized-that-i-had-traveled-to-havana-during-what-now-seems-like/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/the-most-that-somebody-in-mexico-city-will-get-paid-for-a-job-in/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/what-i-wonder-is-what-would-happen-in-california-say-if-all-the/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/talking-in-one-language-and-talking-in-another-i-think-inevitably/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/and-of-course-millions-of-us-cross-the-border-to-work-in-us-homes-and/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alma-guillermoprieto/so-you-know-i-always-say-that-i-m-a-mexican-but-if-i-had-to-be-a/)

[Alma Guillermoprieto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alma-guillermoprieto/)

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