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I love all the Latin dances. I love all the upbeat, salsa, cha-cha, samba dances. I just love the music - and wearing the costumes.
My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
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.
The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.
I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
I got so big in the Latin market, it was a bit like being Elvis Presley. The limousines, the screaming girls - stuff I wasn't used to.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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 the same: We want to be happy.
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.
I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living.
I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.
Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
No child should be left behind - I've heard this from President Obama. And here, we say in Latin America, no country should be left behind.
Much like Jennifer Lopez or Ricky Martin who might have started with a hardcore Latin fan-base, I'll always remember what my foundation was.
I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I'm Latin, and my family is originally from Italy, so we're a loud group. There's always a lot of food, a lot of talking, a lot of fighting.
Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.
I went to Paris when I was 17 and would sit in a cafe called Les Deux Magots, in the Latin Quarter. I spoke English, but not a word of French.
Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.
President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
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.
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
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 in Hollywood, really.
For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet is born, not made.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.