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The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs. -- Erich Leinsdorf
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. -- Daisy Fuentes
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana. -- Julia Sawalha
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world. -- Marco Rubio
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf. -- Norman Lear
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected. -- Fernando Perez
Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people. -- Gloria Estefan
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best. -- Alan Furst
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. -- Evelyn Waugh
If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar. -- Sacha Guitry
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man -- Mark Twain
It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship. -- Sirio Maccioni
I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present. -- Rachael Price
I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries. -- Andrea Navedo
There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York. -- Rachael Price
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid. -- Jamaica Kincaid
Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas. -- John McCain
On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas. -- Joan Didion
My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food -- the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record. -- Gloria Estefan
One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane. -- Stephen Kinzer
You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig. -- David Letterman
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael. -- Mike Lupica
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa. -- Ruben Blades
I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club -- Al Goldstein
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl. -- Thomas A. Edison
A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba. -- Louis Farrakhan
Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it. -- David Muir
These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look. -- Ry Cooder
A cigar makers organization once said that I was the most famous cigar smoker in the world. I dont know if thats true, but once while visiting Havana, I went to a cigar factory. There were four hundred people there rolling cigars, and when they saw me, they all stood up and applauded. -- Groucho Marx
No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that. -- David Byrne

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