"The most that somebody in Mexico City will……" — Alma Guillermoprieto
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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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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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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