Cuban Quotes

• The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

  Wim Wenders

  Strong, People, Unbroken

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• Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects

  Danny Glover

  Thinking, Long, Saws

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• The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

  Hector Elizondo

  Moving, Hands, Differences

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

  Ruben Blades

  Dancing, Sound, Copying

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• The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

  Compay Segundo

  Roots, Cuban Music

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• Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

  Wim Wenders

  Soul, Band, Stories

  "The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

  Jon Secada

  Afros, Might

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• Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

  Compay Segundo

  Half, Talent, Wonderful

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

  Jon Secada

  Beauty, Wedding, Miami

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• The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Scary, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

  Graham Nelson

  Games, Issues, People

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• My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Party, Parent, Literature

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• You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

  Jamie Farr

  Beautiful, Nice, Cities

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  Fidel Castro

  Running, People, Nerd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Thinking, President

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• Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

  William McKinley

  Independent, Government, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

  Tariq Ali

  Thinking, Tragedy, Unions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

  Gloria Estefan

  Sweet, Powerful, Coffee

  "Entertainment Weekly" Magazine, July 30, 1993.

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• I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

  Danny Pino

  Dream, Grandmother, Black

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• I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

  Ron White

  Cuban Cigars, Decent, Smoke

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• I'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of BBQ ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and buskets of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?

  Denis Leary

  Running, Reading, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Edgar Friendly". "Demolition Man", 1993.

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• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  Fidel Castro

  Models

  "Fidel Castro says his comment on Cuban model was misunderstood" by Shasta Darlington, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2010.

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• U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, Leader, Safe

  7 September 1963; quoted in Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979). Some have seized on this warning as evidence of Cuban involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy.

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• I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Policy, Soviet, Felt

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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