Facts about Alma Guillermoprieto

Occup.	Journalist
From	Mexico
Born	May 27, 1949
Age	76 years

Summary

Alma Guillermoprieto is a famous Journalist from Mexico, he/she is 76 years old and still alive, born May 27, 1949.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Alma.

15 Famous quotes by Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican"

Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"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"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"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"

Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

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

Alma Guillermoprieto

"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"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"

Alma Guillermoprieto

"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care"

Alma Guillermoprieto