Bullfighting Quotes

• La tauromaquia es el único arte en el que el artista corre peligro de muerte y en el que el grado de brillantez de la actuación se deja al honor del lidiador.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Muerte, Arte, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). "Muerte por la tarde", p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Fighting, Knowing

  "Running of the Bulls: A Festival Worth Fleeing From" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2011.

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• There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Motor Racing, Games

  "Bullfighting Also Rises -- For Now" by Paul Wachter, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Way, Sun Also Rises

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

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• Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Boxing, Sardines

  Song: Style

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• For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

  Bette Ford

  Spiritual, Winning, Play

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because in.

  Carly Fiorina

  Animal, Different, Bulls

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• El fútbol: Un deporte que guarda la misma relación con la educación que la tauromaquia con la agricultura.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Deportes, Fútbol, Agricultura

  Citado en Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

  Tara Brach

  Fighting, Long, Safety

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.64, Random House

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• It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

  Bette Ford

  Spain, Impossible, Imagine

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

  Robert Klein

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.

  Bette Ford

  Art, Views, Leaving

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

  Bette Ford

  Believe, Roots, Views

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  Bette Ford

  Deporte, Pensamiento, Personas

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

  Elayne Boosler

  Sports, Blood, America

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• ["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sun, Sun Also Rises

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• Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Two, Risk

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• Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

  Bette Ford

  Art, Survival, Example

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.

  Bette Ford

  Thinking, Survival, Pockets

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Home, Bulls, Emblems

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