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I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Because Belongs Blood Call Class Country Dark Darker Differentiation Even Evidence Grandmother Had Indian Kind Me Mexico Nickname Sibling Sign Skin Some Technically Than Third

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When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

Topics: Abandoned Adolescent Being Come Country Him Know Paris Pope Surrealism Three Working Years

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I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: America Been Being Country Did Enough Experience Get Had Harmonious Here Hours Inside Intend Knew Less Living Lucky May Mode Necessarily Never No Experience People Some Some People States Stay Than United United States Would 24 Hours

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We are a strong democratic country.

~Aleksander Kwasniewski

Topics: Country Democratic Strong

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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

~Aleksander Kwasniewski

Topics: After Borders Country Ethnicity Following Groups Holocaust Jews Large Minority Moving Polish Second Second World War Tragedy War World World War

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For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

~Aleksandr Lebed

Topics: Country Regime Ruled Totalitarian Years

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Become Category Country Just Lie Moral Our Pillar State

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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Country Ever Government Great Great Writer Having Like Loved Minor Only Regime Second Why Writer Writers

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For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Average Country Developing Excellent Growth Long-Run Per Percent Year

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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Appropriate Blues Country Early Every Few Here Late Like Lot Memphis Players Record Remember Seems Spent Studying Styles Where Will Years I Remember

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