Latin Quotes

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

I admire them 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.

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

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

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.