Cuban Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Dna

  "Gary Vaynerchuk gives personal brand top billing". Interview with John Warrillow, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 29, 2010.

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• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Light

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• Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

  Ned Sublette

  Character, Essentials, Migration

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.8, Chicago Review Press

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• Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.

  Raul Castro

  Party, People, Leader

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• Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

  Compay Segundo

  Appreciate, Frantic

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• The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

  Holland Cotter

  Past, Way, Born

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• You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that a blockade and political talk would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as being a pretty weak response to this [the Cuban missile crisis]. And I'm sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too. In other words, you're in a pretty bad fix at the present time.

  Curtis LeMay

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

  Bella Thorne

  Dad, Princess, Dark

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

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

  Bella Thorne

  Father, School, People

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

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• The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Long, People

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• Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Brutality

  "Romney Remarks for Cuban Independence Day". www.capitolhillcubans.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

  Raekwon

  Albums, Looks, Done

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• A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

  Bill Cosby

  Cuban Cigars, Cigar, Favourite

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• Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

  Louis Farrakhan

  College, Doctors, Government

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• I'm Cuban and I always will be.

  Jose Contreras

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• A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Government, Everyday

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• What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.

  Kate del Castillo

  Diversity, Support, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

  Emo Philips

  Luxury, Items, Fewer

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2010

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• I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.

  Eva Mendes

  Sleep, Gold, Olympics

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• It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.

  Eva Mendes

  Latin, Challenges, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighter, Used, Beats

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• I loved playing (Aaron Echols on 'Veronica Mars.') I was really sad when I got my head blown off, but...that seems to happen to me. I seem to be murdered on all of these shows. But, okay, as long as the checks don't bounce, I'm all right with that. Besides, when Aaron Echols was killed, as I recall, he'd just had sex with a beautiful young girl, he was smoking a Cuban cigar and drinking a rare, 18-year-old brandy, and watching himself on television. If you gotta go, I think that's probably the way to go.

  Harry Hamlin

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

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