Latin Quotes - Page 23

• I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.

  Tom Hardy

  School, Who I Am, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Race, Would Be

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• I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love.

  John Cusack

  Falling In Love, Lying, Mean

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• I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  School, Italian, Speaks French

  "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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• I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.

  Victoria Justice

  Friday, House, Waiting

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• Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

  Mark Falcoff

  Country, Degrees, Vietnam

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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• Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

  Bianca Jagger

  America, Rights, Government

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• I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stress, Moments, Reason

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Growing Up, Views

  "John Leguizamo: 'Freak,' and proud of it". edition.cnn.com. November 2, 1998.

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• I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

  Salma Hayek

  People, Mexico, Facts

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

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• I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

  Sofia Vergara

  Tv Shows, Perfect, Modern Family

  "Sofia Vergara On ‘The Smurfs,’ Colombia, And Being A MILF" By Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Queens, Kings

  The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

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• There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Military, War, Discipline

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.

  Gloria Estefan

  Albums, September, Language

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• Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Mean

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• The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway, like airports and roads, and in this case it happens much faster. So speaking of a roadmap, without being specific, I would still go for Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East - that's what our clients are really interested in.

  Martin Sorrell

  Airports, America, Clients

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.

  Gloria Estefan

  Believe, Artist, Honor

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• 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. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.

  J. L. Austin

  Simplicity, Done, May

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, www.ditext.com. 1956.

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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, People, United States

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• Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are largely responsible for the unjust world in which we live.

  Hélder Câmara

  Christian, Responsibility, America

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• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Speak English

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• A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Silly, Language, Made

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Humble, Humility, Dust

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Opportunity, Long, Roles

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