"I may not have a practical mind, but……" — Alma Guillermoprieto
"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."
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Alma Guillermoprieto
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22 Quotes by Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto has 22 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
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An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
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For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for…
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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the…
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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…
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if…
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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry…
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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…
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
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There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
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More Concrete Quotes
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
— Vanna Bonta
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
— Sherrod Brown
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
— Herb Caen
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
— Paul Cezanne
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
— Tadao Ando
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