All Alma Guillermoprieto Quotes
- 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… Body
- Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool. Anything Except
- An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises. Enemy
- For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power. Delinquency
- One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. All
- I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. Concrete
- What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? All
- 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… Assume
- 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… Been
- 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… Anywhere
- 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… Always Say
- 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… Another Language
- There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile. Happiness
- 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… Afford
- You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring. Boring
- If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. Better
- The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. Cities
- 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… Care
- 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… Able
- 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… Became
- 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
- Somebody will come from Village X and then they'll send for the brother and then they'll send for the sister and then they'll send for… Apartment