Spain Quotes - Page 2

• Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Aztec, Mexican

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.50

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• I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Play

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

  Paz Vega

  Life Is

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Country, Egypt, Interesting

  "Bitsie Tulloch Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of Grimm and Spills Her Favorite Obsessions!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

  Paz Vega

  Hollywood, Pieces, West

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• [Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform, attract the base of the Moorish army, and see if they could undermine [Francisco] Franco's army through political warfare in Northern Africa combined with guerrilla warfare in Spain. Historians laughed at that, but I don't think they should have. This was the kind of war that might have succeeded in stopping Spanish fascism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Army, Thinking

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  Karlie Kloss

  People, Language

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• I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again, or, for that matter, in America, and tried to take away whatever dwindling civil liberties and human rights we retain, I would resist them with a club if I had to. But my admiration for pacifism as an outlook and a sensibility is enormous. I just find that it gets me into contradictions, as it often gets many pacifists into contradictory positions and strategies.

  Murray Bookchin

  Simple, America, Rights

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

  Mario Batali

  Pockets, Morocco, Croatia

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

  Lou Gerstner

  Looks, Problem, Ibm

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• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Football, Joy, Important

  "Del Bosque's pride in leaving lasting impression". The UEFA.com Interview, www.uefa.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

  Edmund Burke

  Europe, Whales, Coast

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  Javier Bardem

  Block, Kids, Speak English

  "Javier Bardem Comes Across" by Rene Rodriguez, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2000.

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• Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

  Charles James Fox

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Wish

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.

  Ned Sublette

  Years, Development, World

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• I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.

  Xavi

  Football, Regret, Thinking

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• Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sweet, Tolerance, World

  "Hitler's secret Conversations". Book by H R Trevor-Roper, p. 542, 1953.

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• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

  James Monroe

  War, America, Long

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Country, Thinking, Important

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• I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

  Bo Derek

  Horse, Years, Two

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

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• In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

  David Beckham

  Lunch, People, Midnight

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

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• Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Real, Environmental

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• I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.

  Andy Murray

  Kids, Years, Games

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

  Voltaire

  Kings, War, Europe

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.152, Penguin

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