“ There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country. ”
- Christopher Dodd- Copy
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“ No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a black man's third name. ”
- Mickey Rivers- Copy
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“ On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. ”
- Charles A. Jaffe- Copy
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“ CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" ; and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex.". ”
- Ed Moran- Copy
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“ In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ It's not the same to read Gabrielle Garcia Marcus in Spanish than to read it in English in a translation. You lose a tremendous amount of subtleness. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. ”
- Douglas R. Hofstadter- Copy
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“ The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed — for as the Spanish siesta. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ”
- Charles V- Copy
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“ I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while… you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ Melanie's Spanish is very good actually, but it was very good by the time we did Crazy in Alabama for example. At that time, she went to Spain and she did the press conferences in Spanish. She received quite good ovations from the journalists there because she did a great job. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldn't be misused. They are part of the American melting pot. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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“ I so love the Spanish proverb "God says, 'Choose what you will and pay for it,'" which stresses that life holds no easy answers, that conscious choices are often costly ones. We must live with and pay for their consequences. Understanding this, we learn what it means to be fully human… ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ”
- Dominique de Villepin- Copy
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“ You know the writer is American? I don't even think she speaks Spanish. So that was good because the director has a lot of Latin roots in her. But I think it is a target to the Latin market because there is a lot of Latin in it. I think anyone could enjoy it because it is very light, simple, funny things… ”
- Sofia Vergara- Copy
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“ The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she? ”
- Rosie Perez- Copy
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“ And in fact, I dream in whatever language I'm living in. So that, you know, after six months of being in the States, I started dreaming in English again. And when I moved back to Mexico, after a few months, I started dreaming in Spanish again. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
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“ QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Madrid is a wonderful city despite the politics that consist almost entirely of bravado and passion. Madrilenos lack the surly arrogance of the Parisians and the moral righteousness of Berliners. Spanish cowardice in withdrawing troops from Iraq is more complicated than that of either France or Germany, which never sent troops to deal with Saddam Hussein. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. ”
- Hans Konig- Copy
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