Havana Quotes

• Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

  Julia Sawalha

  Beautiful, Country, People

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• En Cuba, y concretamente en La Habana, hay una especie de energía que convierte cada situación en algo inesperado.

  Fernando Pérez

  Energy, Cuba, Unexpected

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Luxury, Pleasure, Knows

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• I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Thinking, Cities

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• El día más fútil y desastroso parece bien pasado cuando se repasa a través del humo azul y fragante de un habano.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Blue, Cigar, Wells

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• Parecía que [había] nodos musicales en el planeta donde las culturas se encuentran y se mezclan, a veces como resultado de circunstancias desafortunadas, como la esclavitud u otra cosa, en lugares como Nueva Orleans y La Habana y Brasil. Son lugares donde la cultura europea, la indígena y la africana se encuentran y conviven, y de ahí surge un nuevo tipo de cultura y, sobre todo, de música.

  David Byrne

  Nueva Orleans, Musical, Juntos

  Entrevista con Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. 17 th Of July de 2006.

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• These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

  Ry Cooder

  Musician, Looks, Tradition

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Museums

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

  Norman Lear

  Believe, Would Be, Reason

  Entrevista con Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. 7 de febrero de 2012.

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• Literalmente, cuando te levantas a las 9 de la mañana en La Habana no sabes dónde estarás al mediodía. Pero es seguro que estarás casado, arrestado o en medio de una increíble transacción en la que alguien te roba el pasaporte o te paga en pesos dominicanos por él, o lo que sea. Es un lugar salvaje.

  Pico Iyer

  Por la mañana, lugares salvajes, seguros

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

  Rachael Price

  Cities, Want, Gallery

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it.

  David Muir

  Home, People, Months

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Pigs, Numbers, Congressman

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• Me encanta ir a las fábricas de La Plata, o de la Pequeña Habana y ver cómo enrollan los puros. Me emociono. Para mí es más bonito que un club de topless

  Al Goldstein

  Beautiful, Clubs, Littles

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• And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Airplane, Men, Slave Ships

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Heart, Men

  Fuente: www.finalcall.com

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• I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Believe, Fighter, Deals

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

  David Letterman

  Home, Men, Years

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• Una organización de tabaqueros dijo una vez que yo era el fumador de puros más famoso del mundo. No sé si es verdad, pero una vez, de visita en La Habana, fui a una fábrica de puros. Había cuatrocientas personas liando puros y, cuando me vieron, se levantaron y aplaudieron.

  Groucho Marx

  Organization, People, World

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• I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Madrid, Jersey, Spain

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Patria

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• My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.

  Gloria Estefan

  Baby, Grandmother, Airports

  "Estefan Performs Songs From New Album" by Caitlin Johnson, www.cbsnews.com. August 27, 2007.

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• On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.

  Joan Didion

  Night, August, President

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 14, 2015

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• I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Pensar, Años, Largos

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• Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

  John McCain

  Race, Ideas, America

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