Alejandro Castro Espin Quotes
Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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No one person is an island.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
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It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.
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To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
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A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
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Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
