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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Status, Mess, Quo

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

Through, Divorce, Word

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

Success, Failure, America

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Saint Patrick

God, Words, Shall

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine

Time, Learn, Found

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

Success, Good, Successful

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana

Music, Black, Call

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

Two, Learn, Classic

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.
David Byrne

Love, Hate, America

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
Zoe Saldana

Women, Strength, True

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.
Henry Louis Gates

Understand, Find, America

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
Maynard James Keenan

Words, America, Europe

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
Jacqueline Bisset

Good, Teacher, Small

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
Henry A. Wallace

War, Greatest, America

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis

Good, True, Two

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes

Knowledge, Off, Show

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
Salma Hayek

Mean, Accent, Mexican

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
Salma Hayek

Good, Reason, Tell

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
William Hague

America, Economy, Bigger

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott

Good, Word, Half

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Gloria Estefan

Parents, Makes, Expressive

Long live the Unity of Latin America.
Hugo Chavez

Live, Long, America

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

Important, Through, America

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
Evo Morales

Time, America, Same

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

Call, Puerto, Rican

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

Alone, Nothing, Reality

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Ezra Pound

Long, Made, Since

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
Noam Chomsky

Another, American, Since

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
Kyle Chandler

School, Mean, Study

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

Work, American, Often

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