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Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
The support I've had from all Latin people, and Mexico especially, has allowed me to conquer my alcoholism.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
It's rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.
I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
I love the Latin neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It's like traveling all over Latin America without ever leaving LA.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.
Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.
Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part of the root of jazz.
We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.
Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.
Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.
I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.