Latin Quotes · Page 19

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

— Publilius Syrus

At the core of it is, how does Hollywood know to make more Latin stories if they don't perform?

— Rachel Zegler

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

— Ruben Blades

Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the…

— Kat Dahlia

The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're…

— Eva Longoria

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to…

— Margaret Sanger

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S.…

— Edward Abbey

I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.

— Danny Garcia

Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the…

— Anonymous

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there…

— Don Rickles

I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I…

— Anna Netrebko

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are…

— David Whyte

Guajira, colombiana, milonga, rumba - all these styles are flamenco. They're part of the musical tradition in my country, and they are…

— Rosalia

The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing…

— Ross Gelbspan

The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its…

— Allan H. Meltzer

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and…

— Anna Lindh

The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle…

— Kwame Nkrumah

I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis…

— Porochista Khakpour

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really…

— Hillary Clinton

Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime],…

— Noam Chomsky

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has…

— Carlos Fuentes

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The…

— Malcolm X

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until…

— Octavia Spencer

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

— Roelof Botha

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.

— Cristina Saralegui

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

— Shakira

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the…

— Harold Washington

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

— Augusten Burroughs

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

— Grace Hightower

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

— Federica Mogherini

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

— Che Guevara

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

— Walter Salles

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

— Travis Barker

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want…

— Kate del Castillo

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

— Augustus

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a…

— Noam Chomsky