#cuba

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#communist party #cuban #extremely #founders #grew

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot. ↗

— Steve Burton

#doing #get #had #him #i

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean. ↗

— James Cameron

#diving #i #i do #i love #live

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#cause #cubans #done #draft #enough

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

— Daisy Fuentes

#cuba #havana #i #i was born #jersey

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#cared #could #cuba #elegant #farmer

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 #democratic #destination #different #doubt

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#cuba #european #hands #never #other

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#acts #country #cuban #far #freedom