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Bullfighting Quote by Bette Ford

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“It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.”

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A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will…

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Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

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Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

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Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to think about…

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If you fear something, walk into it.

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My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be…

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Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport,…

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In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

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I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with…

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One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they…

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I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

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But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked…

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Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

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For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you…

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In bullfighting there is a term called querencia. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has…

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“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to…

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“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in the allotted…

Ernest Hemingway

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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and…

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Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

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Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not…

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.”

Marlene Dietrich

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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

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["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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