Guerra Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. — James D. Bradley

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

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

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

Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame — James D. Bradley

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

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

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

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

We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction. — Ciro Guerra

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love. — Juan Luis Guerra

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

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

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next. — James D. Bradley

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

I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after. — Jose Guerra Sison

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story. — Tom Cole

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

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

Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet. — James D. Bradley

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

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

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

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

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero. — Juan Luis Guerra