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I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking. (Quote by - Clarence Clemons)

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. (Quote by - Erica Jong)

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. (Quote by - John Masefield)

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. (Quote by - Buenaventura Durruti)

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. (Quote by - Kevin Eubanks)

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. (Quote by - Frederica Montseny)

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. (Quote by - Sarah Brightman)

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested. (Quote by - Fernando Alonso)

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain. (Quote by - Laurent Jalabert)

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. (Quote by - George Byron)

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio. (Quote by - Melanie Griffith)

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. (Quote by - Christopher Parker)

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music. (Quote by - Lenny Kravitz)

But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned. (Quote by - Graham Coxon)

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey)

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. (Quote by - Bill Alexander)

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. (Quote by - Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year. (Quote by - Larry Elder)

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about. (Quote by - Andy Gibb)

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. (Quote by - Juan Goytisolo)

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you. (Quote by - Ruud van nistelrooy)

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw. (Quote by - Johan Cruijff)

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way. (Quote by - Frank Lampard)

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react. (Quote by - Frederica Montseny)

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. (Quote by - Paul Prudhomme)

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