Guerra Quotes

#1. My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

Prince Royce

#2. So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.

Tom Cole

#3. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

Tom Cole

#4. One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.

Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.

Adriano Bulla

#5. The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

Tom Cole

#6. Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame

James D. Bradley

#7. No, pos, de nada," the Mexican said with the typical humility that has always bewildered my American need to take credit.

Erasmo Guerra

#8. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

James D. Bradley

#9. That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.

James D. Bradley

#10. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

James D. Bradley

#11. May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

Juan Luis Guerra

#12. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start

Coldplay

#13. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

James D. Bradley

#14. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.

Ciro Guerra

#16. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

James D. Bradley

#17. Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Rebecca Romijn

#18. So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

Oscar Wilde

#19. We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

Juan Luis Guerra

#20. It's an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.

Juan Luis Guerra

#21. Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Hanna Rosin

#22. I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Andre Agassi

#23. I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.

Jose Guerra Sison

#24. I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

John Maeda

#25. It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. Say not the days are evil.
Who's to blame? And fold the hands and say,
oh, shame!
Stand up! Speak out, and bravely,
in God's name, be strong!

Yolanda G. Guerra

#27. The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

Ciro Guerra

#28. The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

Ciro Guerra

#29. Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It sounds romantic, but it's not an easy process at all.

Ciro Guerra

#30. The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.

Juan Luis Guerra

#31. There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Nizar Qabbani

#32. I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really wanted to come for Pat Metheny, and then when I get to Berklee, there's no Pat Metheny, he's not there, and so now what do I do?

Juan Luis Guerra

#33. Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

Juan Luis Guerra

#34. Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

James D. Bradley

#35. I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

Juan Luis Guerra