Cuba Quotes - Page 5

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

The neighbors were more than neighbors [on Cuba]. They were like part of the family.

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

There was a time when emigration from Cuba was a definitive separation. There were no visits. In the '80s, '90s, it was incredibly difficult. I'm not the only one interested in this as a filmmaker - other Cuban filmmakers have dealt with it, too, because it's such a part of our reality.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami.

Let's liquidate all the atomic bases in Cuba and in the U.S. and we are in complete agreement with that.

Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?

Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.