#ted

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#become #believe #camp #could #enough

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #caribbean #history #indian #latino

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. ↗

— Emma Stone

#gave #hollywood #i #into #invited

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#does #itself #others #states #understand

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #i am #imagination #interested #life

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#drawings #film #i #magazine #my own

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#historical #nation #problem #states #united

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #century #dictatorships #latin #latin america