There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

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You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.

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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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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

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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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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 of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

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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 very much. I love kitchens.

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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 people. I assume it does the same for me.

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