Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army."
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Larry Elder
Political Commentator, Author, Radio Host
"In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain."
Paz Vega
Actress
"All my life is in Spain. I will stay."
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"There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests."
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"It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though."
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"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."
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"I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!"
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"My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain."
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"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day."
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"If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes."
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"I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event."
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"Like Spain, I am bound to the past."
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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
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"Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?"
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"I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood."
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"I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals."
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"Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe."
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"For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco's Spain and allowed it a discourse."
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"I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English."
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"I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to."
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"Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."
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"Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier."
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"People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century."
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