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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Anyone Anything Cuba Cuban Dangerous Discover Disturbing Done Even Most Neighbor Outside Person Police Profoundly Quickly Report Revolution Secret Thing Traveling Very You

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I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: After Being Cuba Ever Face Finally He Him Holding Never Only Photograph Recognize Saddest Saw Seen Tournament Up Winning Without

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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Against Always American American Values Boxers Castro Demonstrate Fight Money More Something Symbolic Than Used Values War

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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Any Athletes Baseball Begin Billion Billion Dollars Boxers Capital Cargo Come Cuban Dollars Earth Expensive Field Human Most Other Over Players Represent Ring Sitting Trade World Would

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He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Against Been Best Cuban Ever Exciting Fans Favored Gives He Him His Look Make Mind Opponent Perfect Performance Satisfaction See Seen Sees Style Terrible Think Who I Think

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You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Chin Finding Glass Having Land Learn Only Out Punch Take Way Whether You

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I have a dirty little habit of distilling every city I've ever visited into the historical person I'd have most wanted to meet and share a cigarette with.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Cigarette City Dirty Ever Every Habit Historical Little Meet Most Most Wanted Person Share Visited Wanted

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Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Also Anything Away Both Both Sides Castro Cuba Enemies Exploring Exposing His Makes Miles Much Negative Nuance Opinion Pawn Record Sides Track Track Record You

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Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: About Anything Because Discovered He His Looking Others Prison Put Rather Saw See Simply Telescope Through Wish Wrong

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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Actor Another Another Day Any Art Crossing Day Enemy Fatal Film Goes Her His How Life Lines Matter Minor Mistake Performance Potentially Reflecting Second Something Spies Stage Take Through Trivial Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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