All Quotes

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

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

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.
‐‐ Bob Kerrey

Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
‐‐ Natalie Martinez

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
‐‐ Compay Segundo

Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.
‐‐ Jacques Lipchitz

Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
‐‐ Brad Holland

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
‐‐ David Hockney

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.
‐‐ Mark Lawrenson

Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
‐‐ Alton Brown

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
‐‐ Troy Duffy

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
‐‐ Ernestine Rose

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
‐‐ Mae West

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.
‐‐ James Payn

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
‐‐ Katori Hall

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.
‐‐ Jan Chipchase

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
‐‐ Reed Hundt

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
‐‐ David Novak

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
‐‐ Dario Fo

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
‐‐ Pat Barker

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
‐‐ Masaharu Morimoto

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Culture change means we will do things differently.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

Culture clash is terrific drama.
‐‐ Ken Follett

Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan