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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: cuban
Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

Topics

Father Mother God Beginning Heaven

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

John Lydon

Me Thinking Doing Assumptions You

I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.

Tony Stewart

Brain Break Leg Broke Did

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Tom Lehrer

Song Problem Want Write Out Would

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fripp

You Band Playing Common Once Rigid

Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.

Jay-Z

Hope Alone Black America Enough You

As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.

Disha Patani

Love Me Dancing Up Started Well

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

Doug Flutie

Day Feel Old Retire

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

Doug Ducey

People Decide Compete States

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

William Shatner

Today City Growing Up Growing Way

You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state.

Prince

Words You Understand Twins Songs

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

Peter Singer

I Am Suffering Saying Think Ignore

Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

Peter Storey

Art Feet Dying Ability Stay Your