Spain Quotes - Page 5

• The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivation, People, Pay

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.

  Anne Applebaum

  Thinking, Wings, Effort

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Jobs, Guy, Mexico

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Support, Greek

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Europe, Diverse Society

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Guitar, America

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Television, Messages, Said

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be ruling Spain to this day because that's the institution that held them together. The institute that gave them the only hope was their church. This is why we are so depressed because the institutions of hope that would cause fulfillment amongst us has either been destroyed or laughed at.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Catholic, Church, Together

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Real, Holiday

  "Gareth Bale: It was a relief when world-record transfer to Real Madrid finally happened". www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2013.

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• One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck but in Spain they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.

  Fernando Torres

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Fernando Torres chases more goals in burning desire for first club trophy". Interview with Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

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• I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player - they thought I was just there to sell shirts.

  David Beckham

  Player, Thinking, People

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

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• I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.

  Sophie Blackall

  Israel, Australia, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

  Prefuse 73

  People, Strange, Cuban

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.

  George Packer

  War, Writing, Together

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• [Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the time led by Abd el-Krim (whose tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara) that sought independence for Morocco and Northern Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Army, Uprising, People

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

  Antonio Banderas

  Stars, Nice, America

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• I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

  John Mortimer

  Lunch, Young, Found

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• For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.

  Kate del Castillo

  Usa, Interesting, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  Alan Hansen

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Appreciate, Ingredients, Tradition

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• When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.

  Eva Mendes

  Cute, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Independent, Islam, West

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

  I. M. Pei

  Islamic, Eye, Egypt

  Source: archtalks.com

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