Latin Quotes - Page 21

• Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Block, Fighting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music.

  Andre Vltchek

  Art, Morning, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.

  Albert Kuvezin

  Song, Native American, Simple

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• I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

  Amos Oz

  Greek, Language, Inspired

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

  Jenji Kohan

  Black, Casting, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Government, America, Revolution

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• 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.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Country, Play, Add

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

  Ruben Blades

  Reality, Cities, America

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• I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

  Rafael Correa

  America, People, Luck

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  War, America, Weapons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

  Desi Arnaz

  Blow, America, Ulcers

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Book

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• No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

  Dan Quayle

  School, Wish, Attention

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• The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beach, Science, Boys

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• No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, America, World

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, America, Yankees

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• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  Aaron Klug

  Philosophy, School, Boys

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• I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.167

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• Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

  Jacob Grimm

  Powerful, Science, Hands

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• Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Writing, Simple

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• English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

  David Crystal

  Greek, Vacuums, Renaissance

  "From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Government, America

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• Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music what Jennifer Lopez put out. It's not Latin music. What Enrique Iglesias, it's not Latin music, no? It's Latin artists. There's a Latin artist doing it you could say.

  Marc Anthony

  Doe, Vida, Latin Music

  "Latin Music Explosion Celebrated in Latin Grammies". WorldBeat with Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. September 17, 200.

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• ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.

  Martha Graham

  Teaching, Drawing, Dancer

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