When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.


Carlos Ghosn

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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
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I love having critics for breakfast.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
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Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
CARLOS CASTANEDA
Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau...
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe...
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica...
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTANEDA
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat...
CARLOS CASTANEDA
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba...
CARLOS ALVAREZ
Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
CARLOS ALVAREZ
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b...
CARLOS ALVAREZ
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ...
CARLOS ALAZRAQUI
I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we comme...
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