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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.

  • I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

    Long   Desire   Spain  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

    Fighting   Army   Spain  
  • Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes. They say Spain is pretty though I've never been, well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen. And he should know, he's been there enough. Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much.

    Goodbye   Travel   Eye  
    Song: Daniel My Brother
  • In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

    Country   Spain   Alive  
  • I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

    "Alexei Sayle's Granada". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 11, 2010.
  • Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

  • Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

    Years   Spain   Pay  
  • Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

  • I studied cooking in Spain after college.

    College   Cooking   Spain  
    "Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" by Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.
  • Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

    Kings   Brave   Soldier  
    "Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc." by Captain John Smith, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Third Series, Volume III, p. 49,
  • I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  • And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

    White   Spain   Elements  
  • You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

    People   Spain   Strange  
    Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.
  • Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

    Roots   Parent   Spain  
    "Hollywood's favourite Frenchman". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.
  • And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

    "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.
  • After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.

    Source: www.ourtimepress.com
  • Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

    Iceland   Spain   World  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

    Witty   Thinking   Spain  
  • Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

    Girlfriend   Nice   Wine  
  • Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

  • There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

    Country   Spain   Want  
  • For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

    Egypt   Victory   Islam  
    Fernand Braudel (1995). “A History of Civilizations”, Penguin Group USA
  • I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player - they thought I was just there to sell shirts.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

    Kings   War   Europe  
    Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.152, Penguin
  • 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.

    People   Spain   Stories  
  • It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

    Team   Winning   Player  
  • There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

    Two   Spain   Bulls  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7331, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    People   Acting   Spain  
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