Latin Quotes
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We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.
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I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
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To be a Latin Lover a man, above all, has to be a great fucker - he has to be infallible and I'm not that. I often foul it up.
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Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
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I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept.
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The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.
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There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.
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As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
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I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.
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When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
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Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
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They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.
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I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.
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Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
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I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
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My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
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I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
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Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.
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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
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The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.
