"In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life."

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Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

Alejandro Castro Espin

#Years Quotes #Spheres Quotes #Cuba Quotes

“People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.”
“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”
“Itâ€™s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.”
“I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.”
“I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.”
“In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.”

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“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.”

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