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en I was at the University of Barcelona in Spain when the Spanish Civil War was starting in 1933 and that's where Howard Hughes found me. I was there for the Santa Maria and for the first flight out of New York, the Cardinal Spellman. After four years I came back to the states and flew internationally, and picked up a PhD in physics.

en Wilkinson had a lot of high-powered influence in the United States, Spain and France. Wilkinson commissioned Pike, but what were his motives? He had already sent men into New Orleans and Texas (still under Spanish control) on filibusters or spying missions. He was making contact with Spanish viceroys and selling information to Spain (U.S. military arrangements for $12,000).

en I flew with PanAm back in the days when we were called stewardesses and flew in DC-3s, ... We flew to Cuba, Rio, Buenos Aires — I loved the people and I was learning Spanish.

en I think in terms of the specific aspects making Washington different than, say, Atlanta, or even Richmond or many other southern cities is the immediate post-civil war period. The fact that you create Howard University in 1867 just two years after the war ends. No other city that has a black community can claim a Howard.
  Ed Smith

en I've been teaching 22 years, and I've never been to Spain. I'm from a Spanish-speaking country, but Spain is very important.

en It is the worst act of terror in the history of Spain. ... There shall be no safe haven for terrorism and terrorists in our European Union. ... It is an outrageous, unjustified and unjustifiable attack on the Spanish people and Spanish democracy. There is a general election due in Spain on Sunday. What happened today is a declaration of war on democracy. Let Sunday show that Spanish democracy is determined to overcome terrorism.

en My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

en It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.
  Joan Didion

en If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection. It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.
  Joan Didion

en They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

en After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
  Michael J. Fox

en In Spain, three years ago, there was no coverage for the races. Now we have 7 million people watching the race and Barcelona is completely full.

en Davey was personally close to Howard Hughes. Hughes would have Davey running errands and doing things.

en which are internationally accepted and which have the broad support of member states and civil society.
  Kofi Annan

en It took me 16 years to get picked. I was 56 years old when I finally got picked to go into space and the oldest guy on the flight.


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