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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys."
"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."
"Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them."
"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."
"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."
"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life."
"And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university."
"One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve."
"You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me."
"If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow."
"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played."
"I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous."
"Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love."
"There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships."
"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete."
"I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too."
"I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school."
"There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it."
"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."
"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."
"The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography."
"Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?"
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