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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do."
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"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."
6
"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."
6
"My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career."
6
"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
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"So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting."
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"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."
6
"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
5
"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."
5
"I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual."
5
"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere."
5
"Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition."
5
"You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them."
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"You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship."
5
"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."
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"I think all writing is done through memory."
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"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."
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"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great."
4
"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."
4
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
4
"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
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"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you."
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"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft."
4
"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."
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"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."
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"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
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