Cuban Quotes - Page 7

• I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, People, United States

  "Cruz and Rubio condemn Castro as questions remain over Cuba-US ties" by Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2016.

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• The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

  Bernie Sanders

  Praise, Economy, Disaster

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Song, Sex, Thinking

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• I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Blood, Backgrounds

  "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo". Interview with David Brown, www.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  Rachel Kushner

  Romantic Music, Piano, Orchestra

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• I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

  Danny Pino

  Pride, Opportunity, Ethnicity

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• You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Coffee, Wine, Mean

  "Cristina: A Diet for High Energy". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. February 19, 1997.

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• America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

  Lily Cole

  America, Guy, Going Out

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

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• No, he was no such charlatan--
  Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
  But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
  Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
  Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
  His was the rental of half Havana
  And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
  Rich as he was, could hardly hold
  A candle to light the mines of gold
  Our Cuban owned.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Light, Gold, Hoboken

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• Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Nicaragua, Vietnam

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  Marvin Shanken

  Strong, Scotch, Cuban Cigars

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• Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

  Ted Cruz

  Men, Self, Wife

  "HUFFPOST HILL - Earth Has Day Even Though It’s Not Dead Yet", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2016.

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• I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

  Bill Richardson

  Latin, Party, Want

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• It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Thug

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

  William Cohen

  Peace, War, Miracle

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• If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

  Ian Svenonius

  Escaping, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

  Ed Koch

  Worst Enemy, Modern Life, Should

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• My hope is that the Pope Francis visit to Cuba will remind all the Cuban citizens that they possess dignity and fundamental rights that come from God and that the Castro regime has no claim on changing what is 100% God-given.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Cuba, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Marco Rubio from Sep 21, 2015

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• There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Forever, Wicked, Young

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Long, Dallas, Campaigns

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• When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.

  Dr. John

  Art, Latin, Kids

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• When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honour. I didn't really realise how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Eye, Loss, Thinking

  "Nowitzki Waxes Poetic On Life". Interview with Martin Fuenkele, www.fibaeurope.com. August 15, 2007.

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• I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Yards, Breakfast

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