Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Nestor Carbonell

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

We're hopeful that Cuba will be able to play.

We have instructed all Cuban firms to start using the euro as of the first of June of this year in transactions with the 11 nations of the European Union as well as several others.

Brit Marling

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Andrea Navedo

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

It is a great privilege for all of us to see you here together, ... We feel like we are living a special moment, and that, in Latin America, Cuba is not alone.

I thought he could be what he was in Cuba again, ... He's been even better than I imagined.

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

There are a lot of splits in households over the heritage and the loss of it. Cubans here are different. Some leave out parts of their heritage.

Some of the players are gone, but ... not all of them were stars. If we go back before the revolution, you will see that a lot of the Cuban players were playing in the major leagues. ... We have a large number of players.

Bill Cosby

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

My mother lived in Cuba and much of her jewelry was custom made for her. I had no idea that it was worth so much! I didn't know this (appraisal) was going to be so much fun!

Mark Cuban made mention of all the Wild Turkey he thought would be flowing at Southwest Airlines, and we would hate to disappoint him.

Mark Cuban has a nicer plane. Michael has been a lot more help to us.

Elliott Abrams

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

Never in the history of Cuba has there been these kinds of meetings between foreigners and representatives of the opposition.

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Louie Gohmert

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Davey Johnson

We've been dying to get to Cuba the whole tournament ... They have a very strong team -- this is their Olympic gold team.

Alejo Carpentier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.