Top 100 Raul Quotes
#1. To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch.
Kayti Nika Raet
#2. I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
Demian Bichir
#3. We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.
Mark Falcoff
#4. Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his brother, who is ideologically opposed to them, is still alive. What he will do when Fidel dies remains to be seen.
Mark Falcoff
#5. Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.
Ray Hudson
#6. Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.
Benicio Del Toro
#7. No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
Dan Simmons
#8. Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus.
Bernie Sanders
#9. Ye've done that afore."
Raul spat. "I've done most things before. And some of them twice. And three times a night with your sister.
Robert Lyndon
#10. President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.
David Letterman
#11. I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.
Luis Figo
#12. Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.
Rio Ferdinand
#13. [Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.
Emanuel Cleaver
#14. There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
Elliott Abrams
#15. She now knew that Raul's mouth wasn't just useful for charming the pants off a woman, but just as efficient in making sure a woman was happy she took her pants off to begin with.
Tiffany Patterson
#16. She might be," Raul interjects. "We're still not sure if she's the one.
E.M. Knight
#17. I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch?
Dan Simmons
#18. The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.
Victoria J. Barnett
#19. The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#20. In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
Raul Castro
#21. Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.
Raul Grijalva
#22. I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.
Raul Castillo
#24. Sometimes we used to eat once a day ... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.
Raul Julia
#25. I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
Raul Labrador
#26. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#27. No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
Raul Castro
#30. A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#31. Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.
Raul Castro
#32. You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#33. A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
Raul Julia
#34. People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#35. When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
Raul Garcia
#36. Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.
Raul Soldi
#37. Even wondered about the difference?
Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.
Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#38. In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.
Raul Garcia
#39. Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#40. Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
Raul Julia
#41. In Cuba there are no drugs nor will there be.
Raul Castro
#42. I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and being able to provide services to those that are in need is very strong moral reason to provide services for the underserved.
Raul Ruiz
#43. When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#44. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#46. We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Raul Julia
#47. I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.
Raul Labrador
#48. It would be a travesty, in my opinion, to treat those who violated our laws to get here much better than those who have patiently waited their turn to come to the United States the right way.
Raul Labrador
#49. An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#51. As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
Raul Castro
#52. We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva
#53. The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#55. Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
Raul Grijalva
#56. It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.
Raul Ruiz
#57. It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#58. The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.
Raul Grijalva
#59. I am convinced I was once a tree, this is why I love them so.
Raul Brandao
#60. I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.
Raul Julia
#61. Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
Raul Julia
#62. My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.
Raul Castro
#63. How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
Raul Grijalva
#64. It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
Raul Julia
#65. All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
#66. The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
Raul Ruiz
#67. If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.
Raul Ruiz
#68. The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#69. I'm 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it's not just a hunting right. It's a right for everyone to carry their weapons.
Raul Labrador
#70. In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#71. I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
Raul Castro
#72. I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.
Raul Ruiz
#73. The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed: You have no right to live among us. The German Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live.
Raul Hilberg
#74. Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
Raul Julia
#75. Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#76. Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#77. Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
Raul Julia
#78. A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.
Raul Hilberg
#79. When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play.
Raul Esparza
#80. 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.
Raul Garcia
#81. It's disappointing that President Obama - who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president - has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history.
Raul Labrador
#82. I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Raul Julia
#83. The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#84. To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#85. You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money
Foster "Raul" Mkhabele
#86. I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
Raul Julia
#87. I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.
Raul Castillo
#88. If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.
Raul Montenegro
#90. We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.
Raul Grijalva
#91. we know Oswald did it because he bought a coke instead of a dr. pepper.
Raul Casso
#92. I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.
Raul Esparza
#93. I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
Raul Labrador
#94. I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking,
Raul Castro
#95. As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.
Raul Castillo
#96. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#97. No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#98. The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding.
Raul Hilberg
#99. The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.
Raul Esparza
#100. More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Raul Grijalva
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