Latin Quotes - Page 27

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Europe, Paris

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, War, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've played Latin, I've played Italian. And I've played the all-around regular girl. I think the thing about the way I look, is that I can look like many different things. People sometimes ask me if I'm Russian. I don't think I specifically look like a Puerto Rican or an Italian. Wouldn't you agree?

  Lana Parrilla

  Girl, Thinking, Italian

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• Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Remuneration

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Break Through, America

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Pie, May, Holes

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• Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

  Keanu Reeves

  School, High School, Hopeless

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Men, Rights

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Hero

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• Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

  Terri Windling

  Magic Realism, Hygiene, Long

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• I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Mistake, Somewhere Else, America

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• I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

  Les Dawson

  Ideas, Tunes, Ravel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

  Rebecca Solnit

  America, Political, Fans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The die has been cast.

  Julius Caesar

  Dice, Casts, Has Beens

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• No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

  Stuart Sherman

  Errors, Roots, Derivatives

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• Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.

  Lee Ritenour

  Country, Couple, Heart

  "'Jazz Monthly Feature Interview' Lee Ritenour". Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.

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• So many people, my friends and family, were all saying, "You're so funny. Why don't you become a comedian or an actor?" But it wasn't a reality at the time, it wasn't a road that Latin people were accepted in.

  John Leguizamo

  Reality, People, Comedian

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

  Brené Brown

  Heart, Stories, Definitions

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

  George Farquhar

  Be Good

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 3, sc. 2

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• I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

  John Leguizamo

  Kids, Actors, Driving

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...

  Rafael Nadal

  Singers, Wells, Latin Music

  "Hot Topic: Rafael Nadal". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

  Francis Bacon

  Education, Knowledge, Knowledge And Power

  'Meditationes Sacrae' (1597) 'Of Heresies'

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• I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Saws, Seems, Has Beens

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Life, Mean, Passion

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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