Spain Quotes - Page 3

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

  Vicente del Bosque

  Country, Thinking, Important

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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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• A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Men, Alive, World

  "A Poet in New York" by Federico Garcia Lorca, ("Theory and Play of the Duende"), 1940.

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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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• There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Country, Want, Cases

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• Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Names, Language

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.

  Maya Beiser

  Christian, Art, Home

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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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• It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Crazy, Thinking, Switzerland

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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 Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Winning, Interesting, Atmosphere

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• Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

  Lauren Groff

  Passion, India, Population

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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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• People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

  Luis de Guindos

  Next Week, Battle, Stakes

  "Eurozone crisis live: Ireland votes on EU fiscal treaty". www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

  Alexei Sayle

  Weather, Influence, South

  "Alexei Sayle's Granada". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 11, 2010.

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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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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• Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.

  Steve Jobs

  Girl, Dream, Soulmate

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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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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

  Federica Montseny

  Responsibility, Should Have, Would Be

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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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• In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

  Luis de Guindos

  Long, Debt, Pay

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• Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

  Ray LaHood

  Iceland, World, Levels

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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