Alejandro Castro Espin Quotes
Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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My private life stays private.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.
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My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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“Hope was a fragile flicker that he wanted to cup with both hands to protect against the harsh winds of reality.”
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I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.
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Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.
