Top 637 Quotes & Sayings by Cuban Authors - Page 11

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

To be honest with you, I didn't really read a lot of DC comics as a kid, but I was obsessed with Batman and still am.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

My family was always supportive when I decided that I wanted to pursue this thing called acting.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

My personal goal is to go off. I'm gonna do everything in my power to win games and I know all the other guys around me are in the same boat. Whatever it takes.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Out of all the contracts that were out there, the better one for me was from the Reds. Not talking about money - putting that aside. It was a lot of development opportunities.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

The silver medal is incredible, because we worked so hard for so many years. Sacrificing, absolutely demolishing our bodies for hours a day, 11 months a year, years on end.

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and they kept asking me 'What can I read to try to know what I'm about to be in for,' and while I did have some good suggestions, I figured... I don't know that that book is out there, and that's sort of why I had to write it.

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

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

God made man to be free. Anybody can do whatever they want.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

I came over to this country, so to be able to lead Team U.S.A. is an absolute honor.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.