"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 in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time."

-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mexican Quotes

“When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.”
“Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.”
“What the majority calls "blessing" may actually be a judgment from God.”
“Well the first time I performed, my mom was like how she is now when sees me on stage â€“ all red, smiling from ear to ear. So I donâ€™t want to mess up, [be]cause sheâ€™s smiling. Seeing my mom happy is kind of like an overwhelming feeling.”
“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.”
“Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.”

Source : Song: Child of the Night, Album: The Red Light District, 2004
“Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.157, Random House

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