Latin American Quotes - Page 2

• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, Work Out, United States

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• 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, Latin, Europe

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

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Country, Latin, People

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• Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

  Toni Morrison

  Latin, Writing, Black

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Latin, Animal, Plant

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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

  Latin, Magic Realism, Hygiene

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• 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.

  Billie Burke

  Latin, Ambition, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Latin, Inspiration, Example

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Alvaro Uribe

  War, Latin, Dictator

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Latin, Men, Doe

  Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Latin, Media, Leader

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, America, Radio

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture. But this was the first time that the CIA was openly advocating for permission to be able to torture. And that seemed to me so abhorrent that I wanted to disassociate myself from the CIA for the first time since 1963, because I didn't want to be associated in any way, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

  Ray McGovern

  Latin, Agency, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Kings, Latin, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Latin, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Latin, Mean

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• They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, America, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

  Oscar de la Renta

  Latin, Wife, Looks

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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, Latin, Play

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• I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Latin, Thinking, Culture

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• I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Book, Reading

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• When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, America, Conflict

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Latin, Years, People

  "Patricia Velasquez - Supermodel, Actor and Author". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. October 3, 2015.

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