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Daily Inspiration Quote by Daisy Fuentes

"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is"

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Celebrity candor rarely sounds as unfiltered as this: Daisy Fuentes doesn’t try to launder her pleasure into a virtue. “I just smoked a Cohiba” is a flex disguised as a casual anecdote, a luxury name-drop delivered with the shrug of normal life. It works because the brand carries its own mythology - Cuban aura, forbidden-fruit glamour, old-world masculinity - and she borrows that entire backstory with one word.

The second sentence, “It was great,” is almost aggressively plain, like she’s refusing to overperform sophistication. Then comes the pivot: “You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.” That’s not really about tasting notes; it’s about permission. She frames the act as aesthetic appreciation, turning a vice into connoisseurship. “Everything that cigar is” treats the Cohiba like a cultural object: craft, scarcity, status, ritual, even the theater of holding it. The subtext is that pleasure is allowed to be complicated - sensual and social, a little transgressive, a little curated.

Context matters: Fuentes came up in the MTV-to-mainstream era, when celebrity lifestyle talk was part aspiration, part relatability. A woman claiming the cigar - long coded as a power accessory for men - reads as self-possession. She’s not asking to be edgy; she’s asserting taste. The line lands because it captures a whole mode of late-20th-century fame: luxury as identity, authenticity as performance, and indulgence sold as “appreciation.”

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fuentes, Daisy. (2026, January 17). I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-smoked-a-cohiba-the-other-day-it-was-great-58864/

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Fuentes, Daisy. "I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-smoked-a-cohiba-the-other-day-it-was-great-58864/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-smoked-a-cohiba-the-other-day-it-was-great-58864/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966) is a Actress from Cuba.

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