Spain Quotes - Page 4

• Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Home, Gay

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• The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Rights, Europe

  Bernard Lewis (1993). “Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East”, p.148, Open Court Publishing

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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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• Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Snakes, Devil

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

  Vicente del Bosque

  Country, Thinking, Important

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• There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

  Penelope Cruz

  Home, Phones, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, Reign, Married

  Jane Austen (2015). “Love and Freindship: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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