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Alma Guillermoprieto has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 enterprising investigative…
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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 power.
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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 next?
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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…
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think…
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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and…
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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 else, I'd…
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole…
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